Evergreen Trees

Hemlock, Canadian 

  (Tsuga canadensis) Native and Deer Resistant

A most graceful evergreen: softer appearing than spruces, firs and pines. It's also a tidy tree, with very small cones for a conifer (reaching only one inch, shown immediately above) and petite needles that remain dark green over winter months, even during our coldest winters. Performs best in deep garden soil and happily thrives in heavy shade or sunny spots. Can be sheared into a hedge or left alone it will reach 50 ft. tall and 30 ft. wide in the home landscape (pictured at top, above). Two trees planted in shade at Nikolay middle school in Cambridge have averaged 14 inches of annual growth over the past ten years.

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Spruce, Serbian 

  (Picea omorika)  Deer Resistant

Widely regarded as one of the best specimen evergreens: combining elegance, adaptability and a more compact, narrow profile (see top picture, above). An excellent choice for established landscapes that don't have enough sun or space for other evergreens, and one the few spruces that will thrive in partial shade. Offers narrow, pyramidal form, reaching only 20-25 ft wide at maturity, and up to 50 ft. tall. Glossy, lustrous medium green needles (see above, middle picture) hold their color all winter and resist foliar diseases that commonly afflict blue spruce in our area. Cones are smaller and emerge an ornamental purple (see middle, above) turning shiny brown. Thrives in all soils except those that and sandy or continually wet. Grows at a moderate rate, around 18 inches annually locally.

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Proceeds from our non-profit tree sales have gifted and established over 1150 additional living trees in Cambridge since 2006