Top 5 Evergreen Trees to Plant | NatureHills.com

Evergreen trees and shrubs offer greenery throughout the year and stand out the best in the winter! The range of shades of green, sizes, shapes, and forms can be overwhelming, so Nature Hills is here to help by showcasing 5 of our favorite Evergreen Trees that are guaranteed to become your new favorites too!

5 Slenderina Weeping Blue Spruce
Blue Spruce are already gorgeous but when you make them a weeping specimen, you get something extraordinary! The Slenderina Weeping Blue Spruce features a slender columnar form with a straight, sturdy trunk and drooping, pendulous branches densely lined in blue-green frosted needles. A solitary specimen stands out as a front yard focal point and every tree is a unique living work of art!

#5: Slenderina Weeping Blue Spruce, Growing zones 3-7, growing just 12-15 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide, with a unique weeping form.
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4 Canadian Hemlock
The long-lived and shade-tolerant Canadian Hemlock is a fantastic evergreen with pendulous green branches that are packed with soft deep green needles. Graceful and fragrant, these trees seem to cool the environment they’re planted in, shelter birds and wildlife, and become mighty pyramidal evergreen trees! Also known as Eastern Hemlock, these are among the few evergreens that can successfully be grown as understory trees.

#4 Canadian Hemlock, Growing Zones 3-8, long-lived large trees that can be 20 - 40 feet wide at the base, dark green soft foliage, and cold-hardy evergreens
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3 Taylor Juniper
The Taylor Juniper is a silvery blue-green columnar Juniper with a slender pyramidal form. Fantastic when used as a privacy screen or planted in narrow spaces in the sun, these are heat and sun-tolerant plants that defy poor soil and urban conditions. Featuring upward-growing branches that are space-saving, deer-resistant, and waterwise once established!

#3 Taylor Juniper, Growing Zones 3-9 Mature Height of 20 - 24 feet and only 2 - 3 feet wide, tough columnar upright pyramidal form with blue-green silvery needles.
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2 Soft Serve False Cypress
Soft layered wispy green foliage, the Soft Serve False Cypress is a gorgeous pyramidal evergreen that only grows 6 to 10 feet tall and equally wide at the base. The grace, beauty, and compact size of this Proven Winner® plant is the perfect size for use as a stand alone focal point or to create an easy-care hedge. Salt-tolerant and deer-resistant, you’ll love the ferny branches of this unique evergreen.

#2 Soft Serve False Cypress, Growing Zones 5-7, Mature Height 6 - 10 feet, Mature Spread 6 - 10 feet. Lush green fernlike needles and tiered branching. Salt and deer resistant and smaller sized.
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1 Black Hills Spruce
This hardy native is our number one Evergreen because of its longevity, ease of growth, and low-maintenance nature! Black Hills Spruce evergreen grows into a natural cone shape and it has an absolutely charming, attractive compact habit and vibrant, dark green foliage with a bluish-gray overcast. Decorate this as a living Christmas Tree for the holidays, or just let the Birds roost in it for winter cover. It tolerates road salt and drought, the Black Hills Spruce is a great conifer for windbreaks and helps absorb sound.

#1 Black Hills Spruce, Growing Zones 2-8, Mature Height 40 - 60 feet, Mature Spread 15 - 25 feet. Darker green foliage native with a bluish-gray overcast, pyramidal shape, salt and drought tolerant, and great for birds!
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Year-round greenery or sometimes blue greenery, fantastic windbreaks, landscape specimens, and wildlife shelters, Evergreen trees of all sizes benefit your environment, encourage peace and tranquility, and boost your curb appeal!

Evergreens are typically full sun (with the exception of the fabulous Canadian Hemlock that loves more shade), all handle tough soil types, lower moisture settings once established, and handle urban environments with ease! While many evergreens can be on the slower-growing side, they’re in it for the long run and are in not particular hurry to grow up fast!

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