Cedrus Species and Selections
(We 'Mail-Order' through-out New Zealand.)
Updated 01-02-2010
These include the Cedars of Lebanon and the Himalayan Cedar. They are generally very hardy, resisting cold conditions and drought, but not salt winds.
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Cedrus atlantica - Atlas Cedar. Native of the Atlas Mountains. Grown widely as an ornamental specimen. Will do well in poor dry soils. Often used for Bonsai. Tall Pyramidal. 5 metres high in 10 years. Seedlings need a very dry summer & well drained site to do well. Other areas with rain all year need to purchase Cedrus atlantica grafted onto Cedrus deodara. This way they will survive. Zone 6.
| Seedlings | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Aurea' - Golden Atlas Cedar. Carries itself in classic Atlas Cedar style. Tips liberally dusted with a distinct golden yellow. Needs protection from heavy salt laden wind. Erect pyramidal. 3 metres high and 2.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 65 cm high | Not available this season |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Cheltenham' - A distinct weeping form. Shown above. (Blue) Takes many years for the true weeping form to develop. 4 metres high x 3 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 1 mtr+ high | $45.00 |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Fastigiata' - Leaf colour a bluish green not unlike that of 'Glauca'. Recommended where a more formal shape is required. Erect pyramidal form. 4 metres high x 3.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
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Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' - Blue Atlas Cedar. A pyramidal tree with a straight trunk for the first few years, thereafter an increasing tendency to hang its lower branches. A very attractive broad pyramid. 4 metres high x 3 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 1 mtr + high | $45.00 |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Aurea' - Distinctly different from 'Aurea'. Not quite as bright a yellow. Does not suffer from 'sun burn'. Planted in full sun has a yellow dusting over the blue foliage. 3 metres high x 3 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 1 m high | $45.00 |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula' - Must initially be trained up a stake to desired height before it is let weep. A beautiful spreading (if trained), weeping tree. 3.5 metres high x 7 metres wide in 10 years. In the second photo the strong side branches were taken out sideways and supported till they hold up on their own to create a living foliage waterfall. The annual growth of these branches would be approximately 40 cm. In the third photo this tree had been trained from an early age and shows just how extreme the training can be. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 90 cm high | $45.00 |
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Cedrus brevifolia - Cyprus Cedar. Native of Cyprus mountains. A slow grower. Usually a shrub or small tree. Has much shorter needles than its near relatives. Umbrella crown formed with age. 3 metres high x 2 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7.
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus deodara - Himalayan Cedar, Indian Cedar. A graceful tree with well furnished horizontal branches
weeping at tips. Dislikes extreme salt wind. Conical. 4 metres high x 3 metres wide at
base in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
| Seedlings | PB 6.5 | 60-80 cm high | Not available this season |
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Cedrus deodara 'Albospica' - Silvery white tips appear to full advantage especially on a younger vigorous tree. Medium growth rate. Pyramidal habit. 3 metres high x 2 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Habit similar to pictures above & below. Zone 6.
| Grafted-Stkd | PB | Not available |
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Cedrus deodara 'Aurea' - Golden Himalayan Cedar. Same pyramidal shape of the Cedrus deodara but slower in growth. 3 metres high x 2.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. We no longer grow this tree having preference for the newer cultivar Cedrus deodara 'Vink's Golden'. Photo 2 is of a hedge line in the U.S.A. showing some artistic flair. |
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Cedrus deodara 'Kashmir' - A sturdy and very vigorous deodara with a most unusual habit. Upright with long, strong extending branches. Very rare. 6 metres high in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Side branches extend out horizontally at sparse intervals up the trunk. Each branch would be 2 metres long with tips nodding. The appearance of this tree throughout its life is extraordinary. Zone 6. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season |
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Cedrus
deodara 'Lime Glow' - Lime green foliage. A
'witches broom' of outstanding value. Low grafted plant; a feature in any garden. Great in
rockery. A dwarf or slow growing dense weeper. 10 cm high x 50 cm wide in 10 years
in our Nursery/Garden. Zone
6.
| Grafted | 1.5 ltr HP | 15 cm high x 15 cm wide | $35.00 |
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Cedrus deodara 'Miles High' - This form grows quite quickly with very pendulous branches. It is quite narrow and therefore favoured to use where height is required but width is restricted. A recent addition to our collection. ********************
Cedrus deodara 'Mountain Beauty' - A neat, spreading, compact, bushy form suitable for the home garden. A new introduction to our collection. ********************
Cedrus deodara 'Mylor' - Blue grey. Arching & Spreading. Pruning can encourage unusual shape. Approx. 1.5 mtrs wide x 50 cm at highest point in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
| Grafted | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus deodara 'Okawa' - A graceful slightly pendulous growth habit makes a fine well furnished pyramidal Golden ornamental. 15 feet high to any greater height in time. A recent addition to our collection. Not in Production yet.
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Cedrus deodara 'Pendula' - Weeping Deodar Cedar. Ideal tub plant or ground cover. An extremely weeping form. If requiring a ground cover, request a plant that has not been staked. 70 cm high x 60 cm wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season |
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Cedrus deodara 'Pendula' - Fine leaf form. Irregular habit. Upright main stem. Pendulous branches and branchlets. Blue-grey colour. The Lowest branches spread over the ground like a carpet. 3 metres high x 1.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6.
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus deodara 'Prostrata' - Ideal as tub plant, or as a rockery gem. Habit broad and flat. A ground cover. 25 cm high x 1.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. Not available this season.
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Cedrus deodara 'Raywoods Prostrate Dwarf' - Quite vigorous for a ground cover type plant. Needles quite blue. Spreading and arching. 50 cm high x 1.5 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. |
| Grafted | Not available this season |
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Cedrus deodara 'Samson' - No need to stake this one, it will make its own trunk. Previously called Cedrus deodara 'Pendula'. Once established is very fast growing with a very strong central leader. 6 metres high x 4 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden.
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB6.5 | 1 mtr + high | $45.00 |
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Cedrus deodara 'Scott' - A rounded bush with a golden sheen. No further information available at the moment. A new introduction to our collection.
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Cedrus deodara 'Vink's Golden' - A form of golden deodara superior to 'Aurea'. Pyramidal shape, more compact and slower in growth than Cedrus deodara 'Aurea'. Photographed in our nursery/garden. A lovely subject in any medium to large garden away from strong prevailing winds. 7 metres high x 4 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 90 cm high | $42.00 |
| Grafted (Stkd) | 25.Ltr EL | 1.3 mtrs high | $55.00 |
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Cedrus deodara 'Waverley Ridge' - This plant has short needles and tight foliage. All branches compact and gracefully arching. Blue-grey colour. 1.5 metres high and wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 6. |
| Grafted | Not available this season |
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Cedrus deodara 'Wicky's Delight' - This tree discovered in a batch
of seedlings planted out to beautify farmland. Its beauty has been realised and so will be
eventually described in more detail and be available to the public. 1
metre high (Staked) x 1 metre wide at base (this foliage lying on ground) in 7
years growing in our Nursery/Garden.
| Grafted (Staked) | PB 6.5 | 80 cm high | Not available this season |
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Cedrus
libani - Cedar of Lebanon. Usually identified by its shorter,
darker green needles when it is attaining some age. As a seedling it looks exactly like a
deodara. A popular park and large garden tree. Conical. 5.2 metres high x 3.5 metres wide
in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7.
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 1 mtr high | $48.00 |
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Cedrus libani var. stenacoma - Native of the mountains of Turkey. Is more frost hardy than species. Needles silver grey. Slender conical habit at first then more columnar. 2.5 metres high x 2 m wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7.
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus libani 'Gold Tip' - New foliage bright creamy yellow with some yellowish colour retained year round. Plant for shade through most of the day to avoid sunburn. 1.35 metres high x 1.1 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7.
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Cedrus libani 'Hedgehog' - Found at Cedar
Lodge amongst seedlings. Blue grey in colour. Great ornamental for any small garden. A
slow, low growing mound - compact bun. Quite different. 25 cm high x 70 cm wide in 10 years in
our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7. Photo 2 is Cedrus libani 'Hedgehog'
photographed in the U.S.A. |
| Grafted | 1.5 ltr HP | 12 cm high x 20 cm wide | $35.00 |
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Cedrus libani 'Kina' - Another selected form
found and developed at Cedar Lodge from same seed batch as Cedrus libani 'Hedgehog'.
A very desirable garden or rockery gem. Slow growing. A low & more spreading mound
than Cedrus libani 'Hedgehog'. 45 cm high x 1.3 metres wide in
10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7. Photo 2
is
Cedrus libani
'Kina'
photographed in the
U.S.A. |
| Grafted | 1.5 ltr HP | 12 cm high x 20 cm wide | $35.00 |
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Cedrus libani 'Nana' - Usually a bush as wide as it is high. A collectors item. No special outstanding features. Bushy, compact habit and shortened growth. 1.3 metres high x 1.6 metres wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7. |
| Grafted | Not available |
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Cedrus libani 'Pendula' - Branches grow horizontally along the ground if grafted low. If grafted high makes a wonderful weeping tree. 30 cm high x 70 cm wide in 10 years in our Nursery/Garden. Zone 7. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | Not available this season. |
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Cedrus libani 'Sargentii' - Weeping Cedar of Lebanon. A very valuable dwarf and a truly weeping form. This one needs to be trained up as a young plant to the desired height, it will then form a graceful, dome shaped bush with long curved weeping branches. Makes a wonderful tub plant. 1 metre wide in 10 years by the height during training. Zone 7. |
| Grafted (Stkd) | PB 6.5 | 60 cm high | $48.00 |
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