Conifers

ABIES alba Pyramidalis  
Densely branched tree with a narrowly conical habit.
ABIES balsamea Hudsonia  
Cultivar of the Balssam Fir excellent compact rockery subject. Slow growing dwarf which in 10yrs should reach 30cm in height.
ABIES balsamea Nana 
One of the nicest dwarf conifers for the rock garden. Very hardy similar to Hudsonia when young.
ABIES x bornmuelleriana Compacta 
A compact form of the naturally hybrid of A. nordmannianna and A. cephalonica.
ABIES bracheata  Bristlecone Fir. One of the few abies species with prickly needles. Named for its peculiar cones.
ABIES concolor  Conica 
A narrowly conical dwarf form with short needles. Rare in cultivation.
ABIES concolor Compacta 
Well-known dwarf form with an irregular but attractive habit.  The needles are are even more blue than the species and smaller.
ABIES koreana Blaue Zwo     
A dwarf upright conical plant. Leaves are grey-blue and has little cones. 25-50mm growth per year.  
ABIES koreana Luminetta 
A slow growing , small tree with golden-yellow needles. Suitable for small gardens. Attractive in winter when the color is more intense.
ABIES koreana Silerlocke 
A small tree, needles are twisted around their axis so that the silvery-white back is clearly visible. 
ABIES numidica Pendula 
A recumbent, almost prostrate plant, very rare in cultivation.
ABIES pinsapo Aurea Golden Spanish Fir.
A slow growing  form with sulfur-yellow needles. Needs a protected site as it can be prone to sunburn, especially in winter. 
ABIES procera Glauca  Blue Noble Fir.
Rivalling even the best of the blue spruces with its lovely silver-blue foliage. Once established it can be expected to add 30cm in height per year and usually cones when past the5m mark.  
ABIES procera Noble’s Dwarf  A wide growing plant which will later produce upright branches, possibly a side graft of procera Glauca.
CEDRUS atlantica Silberspitz  
A rare form of the Atlas Cedar. Forms a conical shapely tree to 4m in 10 years. Silvery white new growth before turning a deep green.
CEDRUS deodara Cream Puff 
A bushy form of the Golden Indian Cedar.
CEDRUS deodara Divinely Blue
CEDRUS deodara Feelin’Blue
Grows almost prostrate with only the rare leader. Needles are a bluish green. Also available as a standard.
CEDRUS deodara Gold Nugget 
An extremely slow growing cedar spreading approx. 50cm in 10 years. Beautiful bright gold short needles.
CEDRUS deodara Hilands Gold
CEDRUS deodara Lime Glow 
A dwarf slow growing dense mound with lime-green foliage. Excellent rockery specimen, also grafted as a weeping standard.
CEDRUS deodaraMountain Beauty   
A spreading cedar, quite low at first before building up in height. Light green foliage. 60cm x 80cm in 10 years.
CEDRUS deodara Mylor  
A spreading cedar, quite low at first before building up in height. Light green foliage. Could reach 60cm x 80cm in 10 years.
CEDRUS deodara Silver Spring 
A conical tree with a graceful weeping habit. Usually light green in habit but in spring a display of silvery-white new growth appears.
CEDRUS deodara Snow Sprite 
CEDRUS deodara Vink’s Golden   
A broad yellow form. Tips very pendulous. Full sun.
CEDRUS deodara White Imp   
A white dwarf Himalayan Cedar. Leaves are white on new growth holding into summer. Dwarf conical habit. 10 years 900 x 600mm.
CEDRUS libani Atlantica Glauca  Blue Atlas Cedar.
Not all plants with this name are from the same clone.
CEDRUS libani atlantica glauca pendula  A pendulous form of the blue Atlas Cedar.
CEDRUS libani atlantica Ewe  
CEPHALOTAXUS harringtonia fastigiata   Japanese Plum Yew.
Forms a tall bush 4-5m in height and width. The needles are never prickly which identifies the genus from the related genus Torreya.
CHAMAECYPARIS lawsoniana Ellwood’s Pigmy
This cultivar is much slower growing than all the other forms of Ellwoodii. Blue green foliage it makes a low bun  of only 40cm high and wide in twenty years. Any strong growths should be removed to maintain the shape.
CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa Kosteri (Nana Koster) 
The most elegant member of the Hinoki Cypress family. Kosteri has an informal growth habit composed of large fans of lush green foliage, curiously twisted with one side up and the other down. A ten year specimen would reach 80cm height and the same width.    
CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa Nana Gracilis
The most widely planted form among the Nana group, has a potential height of 2.5m by 1m wide. Lustrous dark green leaf sprays of loosely-held fans are rather more flat than cupped. In 10years it can attain a height of 1m by 40cm in width.
CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa pygmaea Aurescens  
A flat topped bush with coppery orange foliage.
DACRYDIIM franklinii Huon Pine. Tasmanian native conifer of weeping habit and fine pendulous foliage. Initially quick growing in rich soil and sufficient watering. Prefers a sheltered position. An icon of Tasmanias West Coast Rainforests.   
DACRYDIUM cupressinum New Zealand native Rimu.
Excellent garden  ornamental with pendulous bronze-green branchlets. Average growth, 30cm a year.
GINKGO biloba  Maidenhair Tree.
A unique tree, the only surviving member of a large order of plants that now only exist as fossilized remains. The leaves of this elegant deciduous tree resemble on a giant scale the leaves of the maidenhair fern . Providing excellent shade from spring to autumn  and then changes from fresh green to golden-yellow.  
GINKGO biloba Tit  A dwarf  form, with leaves sprouting from swellings on old specimens. Probably a wiches broom.
GLYPTOSTROBUS  Pensilis  A rare deciduous tree in the wild that is also rare in cultivation. It is hardy in mild locations.
JUNIPERUS communis  Spotty Spreader  A mat-like ground cover with some variegations.      
JUNIPERUS Sabina Calgary Carpet  A creeping ground cover with feathery foliage.
JUNIPERUS squamata Blue Star  This plant is perhaps the most popular of all junipers.
JUNIPERUS squamata Loderi  A broadly columnar small tree with blue-green foliage 2 –3m tall.
LARIX decidua  European Larch. An ornamental tree of fresh green spring foliage turning to golden yellow in autumn remaining bare in winter.
LARIX decidua Pendula  A narrow weeping form.
LARIX deciduas Julien’s Weeper   A weeping form of the European Larch. 
LARIX decidua Little Bogle    A dwarf select form of the European Larch. Rich green leaves and central leader. Some stems bent a little. 50-100mm a year.
LARIX gmelini  Dahurian Larch  Also called the Eastern larch grows into a tall tree to 50m.
LARIX kaempferi  Also known as leptolepis the Japanese Larch is a beautiful tree from the island of Hondo. The tree shows excellent fresh spring growth and autumn colour. Ten year growth to 3m by 1.5m wide.
LARIX kaempferi Blue Rabbit  Similar habit to kaempferi but shows remarkable blue needles.
LARIX kaempferi Diana  A small elegant tree with contorted branches
LARIX larcinina  American Larch    A small to medium sized tree, vigorous when young.
LARIX laricina Girard’s Dwarf    A dwarf American Larch makes a broad conical upright plant.
LARIX siberica Conica 
LARIX xeurolepis Varied Directions  Hybrid between L. decidua and L. kaempferi. This is a peculiar form with long horizontal twigs.
METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides Dawn Redwood  A beautiful deciduous conifer, native to remote mountainous areas of China. Known as “The Living Fossil” as it was thought to be extinct until discovered early last century. Popular garden conifer of beautiful form and soft new spring foliage which turns to a rich bronze in autumn.  
METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides Gold   A golden form of the Dawn Redwood .
PICEA abies aurea Jacobsen   A narrow upright plant with all is leaves yellow only on the tip of the green leaves. Growth 300mm a year.
PICEA abies aureo Spica   Large growing yellow variety of the Norway Spruce. Upright  narrow plant. Leaves are a basic forest green with yellow the tip where the sun hits. 3.6m in 10 years. 
PICEA abies Cupressina  A slender, conical form, often treelike. More compact and a better form than pyramidata.
PICEA abies Goblin  Small rounded shrub with bright green , needle-like foiage.  1m in 10 years.
PICEA abies Little Gem  A witches- broom from Nidiformis, a compact globose bush
PICEA brachytyla  Sargent Spruce.  This rare and densely branched tree has conspicuous short needles.
PICEA breweriana  Brewer’s Weeping Spruce.  A beautiful weeping conifer. Slender branches are born downwards by the weight of the foliage. Medium growth 3m in 10 years.
PICEA glauca Alberta Globe  A mutation of the very common conica’ . A compact globose bush.
PICEA glauca albertina Conica  The most common of all dwarf spruces. Conical form, suitable for patios, terraces, rockery and tub.
PICEA glauca Hudsonii  Very rare in cultivation it has bushy habit and glaucous foliage.
PICEA glauca Little Globe   A green dwarf witch’s broom variety of the white spruce. Leaves are green and small on a flat bun shaped plant. Full sun. 10 years height 300mm x 600mm
PICEA glauca Nana  A dwarf globose plant. Rare in cultivation.
PICEA likeangensis  var. Balfouriana  A conical tree 15m tall with short grey-blue needles.
PICEA orientalis Aurea  The young shoots and needles are silvery yellowin spring, turning green in summer.
PICEA orientalis Barnes  A compact and slow-growing form.
PICEA orientalis Pendula   A rare, weeping form of the Caucasian Spruce.
PICEA pungens Baby Blue Eyes  A slow growing shrub, rounded at first, later developing the true spruce shape. Beautiful bright blue foliage. Approx. 60cm in 10 years.
PICEA pungens Blue Pearl (Std)  As above on a standard graft.
PICEA pungens Donna’s Rainbow 
PICEA pungens Fat Albert  Grey-blue foliage, excellent specimen.
PICEA pungens Fat Mac  Slow growing forming a compact rounded ball. Deep grey-green foliage. Approx. 25cm in 10 years. 
PICEA pungens Hoto  Excellent garden specimen
PICEA pungens Montgomery  A slow growing plant, much wider than high.
PICEA pungens Raymur Springs 
PICEA pungens St. Mary  A flat topped very low plant.
PICEA pungens Thomsen  A beautiful form of blue spruce with light icy blue foliage. Forms a typical pyramidal spruce shape.
PICEA smithiana Himalayan Spruce  Similar in weeping habit similar to breweriana. A beautiful specimen tree the branches hang in cascades often terminating in clusters of attractive cones.
PINUS aristata Bristlecone Pine  The slowest growing of any pine this is a must for collectors of dwarf and unusual pines. The oldest specimen is believed to be 4900 years old.  An attractive dwarf in the garden, the bushy dark green needles exude a whitish resin which gives it an overall blue –green effect. 
PINUS densiflora Low Glow  Low growing pine with short, bright green needles. 30cm 10 years.
PINUS leucodermis Compact Gem  A lovely dwarf of the Bosnian Pine, an excellent slow-growing form.
PINUS leucodermis Schmidtii  The smallest of all th cultivars of Pinus ‘Schmidtii’ it was found in the wild in Bosnia in1926.
PINUS monticolor  Nana  A compact form of the Western White Pine.
PINUS mugo Amber Gold  A beautiful, dwarf ornamental pine with needles that turn to stunning gold each winter and back to green in summer. 50cm high and 75cm wide in 10 years.
PINUS mugo Hesse  The needles are much shorter than the average P.mugo var.
PINUS mugo Ophir  A flat topped plant which has a very good yellow winter colour.
PINUS mugo Pal Maleter  Fast growing bushy plant . The tips of the needles are conspicuously yellow in winter.
PINUS mugo Per Golden    A dwarf variegated form. Leaves green with dragon’s eye effect on each stem. 10 years 0.9m x 1.2m
PINUS mugo Prostrata   Prostrate form of European Mountain Pine.  
PINUS mugo Sherwood’s Compact  An excellent dwarf  with compact habit.
PINUS mugo Zundert  A compact dwarf to 80cm tall with yellow needles in winter, less so in summer.
PINUS nigra Globosa  A compact flat topped plant.
PINUS parviflora brevifolia  A small, slow-growing, upright tree with very short needles.  
PINUS parviflora Fukai  An unusual form of parviflora with yellow-variegated needles.
PINUS parviflora Fukuz  A nice form with short needles.
PINUS peuce aureovariegata  The young shoots bear yellow needles, later turning grey-green. 
PINUS pumila pygmaea  A dwarf form of the Japanese Mountain Pine.
PINUS radiata Kenton 
PINUS sylvestilis aurea  A small tree with grey-green needles in summer, turning a golden-yellow in winter.
PINUS sylvestilis Inverlieth   An attractive pine with thick needles of green and creamy white colours. Grows at least 2m in 10 years. 
PINUS sylvestris ‘Jeremy’  Difficult to propagate, this very slow growing dwarf has very short leaves.
PINUS sylvestris Compressa  An attractive shrub with grayish green needles. Eventual conical habit  1m 10 years.
PINUS thunbergii ‘Thunderhead’  A compact form of the Japanese Black Pine with very dark green needles.   
PINUS thumbergii Yatsabusa  A small form of the Japanese Black Pine. A compact shrub with rigid dark green needles. Grows more than 2m but can be kept as a dwarf with trimming.
PINUS virginiana Wate’s Golden  A golden form of the Virginia or Scrub Pine. The long needles are bright gold colour. Small tree.
PSEUDOLARIX amabilis  ‘Golden Larch’  A native of China this beautiful tree is often used for Bonsai culture. It has soft green spring foliage and a wonderful golden colour in autumn and small reddish-brown cones like small flowers along the branches. 2.5m in 10 years. 
PSEUDOTSUGA menziesii Pendula  A beautiful weeping tree with grey-green foliage. Stunning feature tree.
SCIADOPITYS verticillata ‘Japanese Umbrella Pine’  Slow growing it can be considered a dwarf for the first ten years but will eventually grow into a fine pyramidal tree. Very old trees in Japan have been known to reach 50m.
SEQUOIA sempervirens adpressa  A dwarf formof the Califorian Redwood. A sprawling shrub with deep green foliage. Cream coloured new shoots. Trims very well.  
SEQUOIADENDRON giganteum ‘Big Tree’  The largest tree in existence reaching 100m and a base diameter of 12m. Suitable only for parks and large gardens they make an annual growth of  50cm in their early years under the right growing conditions.
SEQUOIADENDRON giganteum ‘Pygmaeum’  A broad dense plant which is quite rare in the trade. 
TAXODIUM distichum  ‘Cascade Falls’  A beautiful form of the swamp cypress. The green fern-like foliage turns bronze in autumn.
TAXODIUM distichum ‘Secrest ‘ A compact dwarf.
TAXODIUM distichum ‘Swamp Cypress’  While happy growing in normal garden conditions as its name suggests it is quite happy growing in swampy or damp situations. A deciduous conifer the tree goes through a colour change in autumn from yellow to orange-brown, fresh yew like leaves in spring. In 10 years it may reach 5m in height with a spread of 2.5m.
TAXODIUM distichum Pendens  A tree the same size as the species, the tips of the branches are slightly pendulous.
TAXUS baccata fastigiata ‘Golden Irish Yew’ An upright –growing columnar is known throughout the world for its rich dark-green foliage highlighted during autumn with red berries. Slow growing while young, 2m in 10 years, it will eventually increase its annual growth and require trimming to maintain its shape.
THUJA occidentalis ‘Rheingold’  A bun shaped little shrub, pinkish gold in summer growth and turning a bright golden-bronze in winter. A 10 year old plant would reach 70cm high by 1.3m wide.
THUJA occidentalis ‘Teddy’ 
TSUGA canadensis Golden Splendour