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| ABIES (Silver Fir) |
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| Evergreen | nordmanniana (Caucasian Fir) Large tree with tiered branches sweeping downwards. Luxuriant, rich green foliage and greenish cyindrical cones. Disease resistant. |
| 5 | 40-50m | Full Sun |
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| CALOCEDRUS |
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| Evergreen | decurrens (Incense Cedar) Large columnar tree. Dark green foliage in fan-like sprays. |
| 5-6 | 20-30m | Full Sun |
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| CEPHALOTAXUS |
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| Evergreen | fortunei (Chinese Plum Yew) Large, spreading shrub or small bushy tree, with large yew-like, dark glossy green leaves, and olive-like fruits. Thrives on chalk in shade. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 2.5-3.5m | Full Sun, Full Shade |
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| CHAMAECYPARIS (False cypress) |
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| Evergreen | lawsoniana (Lawson Cypress) Large conicle tree with fan-like sprays of foliage on drooping branches. This species gives rise numerous cultivars both large and small. |
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| 'Elwoodii' Slow growing, dense, columnar bush. Feathery sprays of glaucous foliage. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 4-5m | Full Sun |
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| 'Elwoods Gold' Young growths tinged yellow. More compact than elwoodii. |
| 5-6 | 3-4m | Full Sun |
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| 'Golden Wonder' Broadly columner and compact with bright yellow foliage |
| 5-6 | 6-8m | Full Sun |
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| Evergreen | pisifera (Sawara Cypress) |
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| 'Boulevard' Dense, conicle bush with steel-blue foliage, purple tinged in winter. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 3-3.5m | Full Sun |
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| CUPRESSUS |
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| Evergreen | sempervirens (Italian Cypress) Narrow columnar tree. Upright growth, with dark green, awl-like foliage. Young plants require some protection in cold areas |
| 5-6 | 12-15m | Full Sun |
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| GINKGO |
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| biloba (Maidenhair Tree) Medium to large, deciduous tree with fan shaped, green leaves which turn clear yellow in autumn. A sacred tree, often planted near buddist temples. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 16-20m | Full Sun |
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| JUNIPERUS (Juniper) |
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| Evergreen | communis (Common Juniper) Variable species, usually a large shrub. Thrives on Chalk. |
| 5-6 | 40-60cm |
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| 'Repanda' Prostrate, densely packed stems, bronze tinged in winter. Good ground cover. |
| 5-6 | 15-30cm | Full Sun |
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| PICEA (Spruce) |
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| Evergreen | omorika (Serbian Spruce) A beautiful tall, graceful, slender tree with drooping branches curving upwards at the tips. Cones, blue-black wen young. Excellent for chalk soils. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 16-20m | Full Sun |
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| SEQUOIADENDRON |
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| Evergreen | gigantea (Wellingtonia) Very large tree with reddish brown, deeply furrowed bark, and bright green, awl-shaped leaves. Green ovoid cones maturing to brown. |
| 5-6 | 50-60m | Full Sun |
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| TAXUS (Yew) |
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| Evergreen | baccata (Common Yew) Large shrub or small-medium tree. Excellent hedging plant for shallow chalk soils | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 5-10m | Full Sun, Full Shade |
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| 'Fastigiatus Aureomarginatus' (Golden Irish Yew) Dense, compact column, with yellow edged leaves. Male. |
| 5-6 | 4-6m | Full Sun, Full Shade |
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| THUJA (Arbor-vitae) |
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| Evergreen | occidentalis (American Arbor-vitae) |
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| 'Emerald' Compact pyramidal form with fresh green foliage throughout the year. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 3-4m | Full Sun |
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| 'Pygmaea' Dwarf, dense bush with fan-like sprays of sea-green foliage turning bronze. |
| 5-6 | 30-60cm | Full Sun |
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| 'Rheingold' Slow growing bush, broadly conical with amber-gold foliage. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 2.5-3m | Full Sun |
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| Evergreen | plicata (Western Red Cedar) Large fast growing ornamental tree with bright green,glossy foliage which emits a pleasant odour when crushed. Ideal screening or hedging plant, the best alternative to x CUPRESSOCYPARIS leylandii. |
| 5-6 | 25-35m | Full Sun |
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| 'Zebrina' Large, conical tree with spray of green foliage banded with yellow. | Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit | 5-6 | 20-25m | Full Sun |
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