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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Pembury Blue
Lawson Cypress
Common Name: Lawson CypressLatin Name: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Pembury Blue'Soil: Moist but well-drained (will tolerate most soil types)Position: Full sun or shade (Avoid very exposed positions)Hardiness: Fully hardyHeight in 10 years: 1.8m - 2.2mSpecial features: Medium growing, conical shape, silver blue foliage. Suitable for shrubbery. (Evergreen)A fairly recent introduction but already popular, this has very good blue foliage which is slightly silvery and which takes on slightly deeper colour tones during the winter months providing a cool and soothing colour. This is a nice dense solid cone of a tree which grows about 30cm a year.
Hebe Red Edge
Shrubby Veronica
Common Name: Shrubby VeronicaLatin Name: Hebe Red EdgeSoil: poor or moderately fertile, moist, well drained neutral to slightly alkaline soilPosition: Full sun or partial shadeFlowering period/colour: June to July/Lilacblue flowersHardiness: frost hardy (needs winter protection in cold areas)Eventual height/spread: 0.45m x 0.6mSpecial features: A dwarf shrub with grey-green leaves with narrow red margins and veining when young.Lilac-blue summer flowers appear on short spikes, fading to white, amongst the grey-green leaves. The narrow leaves have a red margin which is particularly prominent in winter. This small, spreading, evergreen shrub makes an attractive low, informal hedge or edging plant for a mixed border. In an urban or coastal site, it needs protection from cold, drying winds.
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Picea pungens Fat Albert
Colorado Spruce Fat Albert
Common Name: Colorado Spruce Fat AlbertLatin Name: Picea pungens 'Fat Albert'Soil: Prefers rich moist soil. Acid or neutralPosition: Full sun. Flowering period/colour: Non-floweringHardiness: Fully hardy (to below -20°C). Height and spread in 10 years: 3m x 2mSpecial features: Blue conical evergreen conifer, winter interest. RHS Award of Garden Merit.Picea pungens 'Fat Albert' is a handsome conical (Christmas tree) shaped conifer, with a beautifully subtle steel-blue colour to its needles. It grows about thirty centimetres in height per year to reach about three metres in ten years, and finally matures at three to five metres. This tree produces cones and they are five to ten centrimetres, and are greenish when young. The cones are a light brown colour at maturity.
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Picea pungens Koster
Colorado Spruce
Common Name: Colorado Spruce Koster Latin Name: Picea pungens 'Koster'Soil: Prefers rich moist soil. Acid or neutralPosition: Full sun. Flowering period/colour: Non-floweringHardiness: Fully hardy (to below -20°C). Height and spread in 10 years: 4m x 3mSpecial features: Blue conical evergreen conifer, winter interest. Picea pungens 'Koster' is a handsome conical (Christmas tree) shaped conifer, with a beautifully subtle steel-blue colour to its needles. It is very hardy and can survive in temperatures down to -40°C.
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Picea pungens Schovenhorst
Barb Spruce
Common Name: Barb SpruceLatin Name: Picea pungens 'Schovenhorst'Soil: Prefers rich moist soil. Acid or neutralPosition: Full sun. Flowering period/colour: Non-floweringHardiness: Fully hardy (to below -20°C). Height and spread in 10 years: 3m x 1.5mSpecial features: The branches are mostly horizontalAlso known as the barb spruce is a medium sized, upright evergreen tree. The branches are mostly horizontal. It has light gray-blue to gray-green foilage throughout winter. Light brown elongated fruits cones which are 6-10 cm in length, appear during Winter when mature. It is well tolerated in the urban environment and drought resistant and very cold resistant.
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