(Japanese Umbrella-pine, Wintergreen Umbrella-pine)

With long, flat needles arranged like radial spokes, the slow-growing Japanese umbrella-pine is an unusual but picturesque tree. From Japan, this evergreen is dense and compact when young and becomes more open with age, attaining a pyramidal shape that can be either tall and narrow or slightly rounded. Its bark is attractive, but since hidden by the foliage, the exfoliating plates and strips of reddish gray-brown are rarely enjoyed.

Cultivar 'Wintergreen' is more cold-hardy than the species and...

(Arborvitae Fern, Spike Moss, Sweat Fern)

Spikemoss or sweat fern is a low, tuft-forming, evergreen perennial native to Central Amercia, southern North America, and Cuba. Neither a fern nor a moss, it bears frond-like stems - resembling arborvitae foliage - that are light green above and silver underneath. It also sometimes produces stems terminating in spore-bearing "cones". Spikemoss thrives in moist, humus-rich soil and shade. It makes a good pot plant or ground cover for a shady, humid site.

(Redwood)

This majestic evergreen conifer is the tallest tree in America and popular for landscaping in the far western United States. Famous for its red, rot-resistant wood, it is native to the Pacific Coast of northern California and extreme southern Oregon. It rapidly develops a tall, narrow, pyramidal habit with slightly drooping branches lined with deep green, small, flattened needles. The buttressed trunk is sheathed in spongy, reddish brown, fire-resistant bark. Small, reddish, pendulous cones are carried...

(Redwood)

Fine-textured foliage makes 'Soquel' a soft, misty element in the landscape. As a cultivar of the tallest tree in America, it is also a majestic presence. Famous for its red, rot-resistant wood, Sequoia sempervirens is native to coastal northern California and southern Oregon. This relatively compact cultivar rapidly forms a pyramid of horizontal branches furnished with blue-green yew-like needles in upswept sprays. The buttressed trunk is sheathed in spongy, reddish brown, fire-resistant...

(Pond Cypress)

Valued for its narrow conical habit, its showy fall color, and its adaptability, this deciduous conifer is native to the Southeast United States. Its short horizontal branches bear mossy erect branchlets clad in clasping soft bright green needles. The needles turn a rich golden yellow to orange-red in autumn before dropping to form a soft, natural mulch. The buttressed trunk has exfoliating bark that shreds in red-brown and gray strips, providing winter interest. Small round green cones cluster at...

(Pond Cypress)

Especially narrow in habit with showy fall color, this deciduous conifer is native to the southeastern United States. Selection 'Prairie Sentinel' has a pronounced columnar habit with very short horizontal branches with mossy erect branchlets clad in clasping soft bright green needles. The needles turn a rich golden yellow to orange-red in autumn before dropping to form a soft, natural mulch. The buttressed trunk has exfoliating bark that shreds in red-brown and gray strips, providing winter interest....

(English Yew)

Cultivated in gardens for hundreds of years, English yew is a variable evergreen tree or large shrub with flat, supple, black-green needles. Its many cultivars range in habit from low and spreading to upright and columnar. Its toughness, adaptability, tolerance of shearing, and red fleshy fruits (on female plants) make it a popular choice for hedges, foundation plantings, or screening. In the eastern United States it is represented in gardens mostly by its hybrid, Taxus x media,...

(David English Yew, English Yew)

Cultivated in gardens for hundreds of years, English yew is a variable evergreen tree or large shrub with flat, supple, black-green needles. Its many cultivars range in habit from low and spreading to upright and columnar. Its toughness, adaptability, tolerance of shearing, and red fleshy fruits (on female plants) make it a popular choice for hedges, foundation plantings, or screening. In the eastern United States it is represented in gardens mostly by its hybrid, Taxus x media,...

(English Yew, Irish Yew)

Cultivated in gardens for hundreds of years, English yew is a variable evergreen tree or large shrub with flat, supple, black-green needles. Its many cultivars range in habit from low and spreading to upright and columnar. Its toughness, adaptability, tolerance of shearing, and red fleshy fruits (on female plants) make it a popular choice for hedges, foundation plantings, or screening. In the eastern United States it is represented in gardens mostly by its hybrid, Taxus x media,...

(English Yew, Spreading English Yew)

Cultivated in gardens for hundreds of years, English yew is a variable evergreen tree or large shrub with flat, supple, black-green needles. Its cultivar 'Repandens' has long been one of the evergreens most often used for covering ground in partial to heavy shade. The low spreading branches of this female selection eventually form a knee-high shrub several times broader than tall. Its toughness, adaptability, tolerance of shearing, and red fleshy fruits make it a popular choice as a ground cover...