If you take care when planting, caring for a weeping Blue Atlas cedar should not be too difficult. Rather than staking the branches to create a shape, you can allow them to mound and spread. This cultivar is likely to grow about 10 feet (3 m.) high and twice as wide, depending on how you decide to train it.Ĭonsider planting weeping Blue Atlas cedars in a rock garden. Planting a weeping Blue Atlas cedar, with its drooping, twisted branches, gives you an unusual and spectacular specimen tree. While weeping Blue Atlas cedars have the same powdery blue-green needles as upright Blue Atlas, the branches on the weeping cultivars droop unless you tie them up on stakes. Nurseries create weeping Blue Atlas cedar trees by grafting the ‘Glauca Pendula’ cultivar onto the Cedrus atlantica species rootstock. Select a growing site sufficiently large for the tree to get to 60 feet (18.5 m.) tall and 40 feet (12 m.) wide. The trees grow fast at first and then slower as they age. In California or Florida, they can also be planted in zone 9. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 8. Plant these cedars in the sun or in partial shade. They are also most attractive if they have sufficient room for their branches to fully extend and if you don’t remove their lower branches. The trees don’t thrive in restricted space. If you decide to plant a Blue Atlas cedar, give it plenty of room to spread out. With its stiff, blue-green needles, it makes an exceptional specimen tree for big backyards.īlue Atlas cedar care starts with selecting an appropriate planting location. The Blue Atlas cedar is a stately and majestic evergreen with a strong, vertical trunk and open, almost horizontal limbs. Read on for more information about Blue Atlas cedar trees and care. The weeping version, ‘Glauca Pendula,’ can be trained to grow like a vast umbrella of tree limbs. Blue Atlas ( Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’) is among the most popular cedar cultivars in this country, with its beautiful powdery blue needles. Packaged nicely and very healthy plants.The Atlas cedar ( Cedrus atlantica) is a true cedar that takes its name from the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa, its native range. Only four stars since ad does not state grafted onto root stock, otherwise five stars I looked them up online but would expect customer service to think of something like that.
I do wish it had come with support/care instructions. About 8” tall but alive and well!īeautiful tree, well packed and in good condition after traveling from OR to NJ. Wasn’t sure what to expect for shipping a tree! The little tree was in perfect shape. My 1 year old tree came healthy and happy! Was surprised when I got a box. I got a 1-2 year old and it’s about a foot and a half tall. The tree arrived perfectly and in healthy condition. Pretty little tree and plant looks healthy This was the second tree that I purchased from Kigi Nursery, and I am extremely pleased with the quality of the plants and the efficiency of ordering and delivery.Īrrived unharmed so packaging was good. The packaging, especially the root ball, was done so that no damage of any kind was observed. This tree arrived in a timely fashion and was extremely healthy.
It arrived quick, healthy, and packed well.
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