Plant: Weeping Atlantic Cedar
Cedar · Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'
$30.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Full Sun
Mature size
50 ft tall25 ft wide
More about this plant
Weeping blue atlas cedar is a slow-growing evergreen with silvery blue needles on dramatically pendant branches, reaching about 15 to 20 feet tall and wide in natural form. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and works as a specimen or accent in a minimal-care garden. Heavy snow or ice can break branches.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 50 ft tall and 25 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Weeping blue atlas cedar is a slow-growing evergreen with silvery blue needles on dramatically pendant branches, reaching about 15 to 20 feet tall and wide in natural form. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and works as a specimen or accent in a minimal-care garden. Heavy snow or ice can break branches.
- Foliage
- Rigid silvery-blue needles in tufted clusters on pendant branchlets.
- Fruit
- Cylindrical cones 1 to 3 inches long, purple when young and brown with age.
- Bark & stems
- Species bark is dark gray-brown, fissured into boxy rectangles with age.
- Pruning
- Train and prune as needed to keep the desired shape; often staked upright into a serpentine form. Fertilize before spring growth.
- Native range
- Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria (species)
