Horticulturist, Jerry Goodspeed explains how to add color, texture and beauty to yard with unique and unusual evergreens.
Check out Jerry Goodpseed’s list of unique and unusual evergreens:
1.Blue Atlas Cedar – Blue color, more open than a blue spruce.
2. Weeping blue Atlas Cedar – Weeps or grows different patterns.
3. Cedar of Lebanon – Tall stately tree. Deep green. large. Teirs of limbs, growth.
4. Bosnian pine – smaller more open pine. 15 to 25 feet.
5. Columnar Scots pine – only 4 to 5 feet wide, very upright, 20 to 30 feet tall.
6. Deodara cedar – very stately, upright. open when older. 40 to 70 feet tall. Golden variety.
7. Arizona Cypress – Wonderful blue color, water wise, 20 to 30 feet tall, nice form.
For more information on workshops, plant sales and classes go to
ogdenbotanicalgardens.blogspot.com
or contact:
Jerry L. Goodspeed
Utah State University Extension
Weber County
Director – Ogden Botanical Gardens
www.extension.usu.edu
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