Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar Bonsai
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Weeping blue atlas cedar bonsai. Superb specimen for minimal care gardens. In old age elegant specimens get broader and develop a flat topped form. Curtains of evergreen blue needles dangle from arching scaffold branches which can be wired to choice. The blue atlas cedar cedrus atlantica glauca is native to africa.
Known to grow well in hot dry areas the blue atlas cedar is easily adapted to various soil types with full sun. Product description a superb weeping tree with long greenish blue foliage that hangs down vertically. The weeping blue atlas cedar s slender branches will certainly be a talking point for visitors people often comment that it has a ghostly or ethereal feel to it. Pendant branchlets display icy blue needles creating a graceful waterfall like effect.
Uniformly stiff ascending main branches with spreading branchlets give the tree a full but open look. Cedrus atlantica glauca pendula the popular weeping blue atlas cedar is a dramatic pyramidal tree with clusters of short somewhat stiff frosty silver blue needles. Notable blue atlas cedar cultivars include. Twisted branches filled with powdery to deep blue needles sun and shade change the hue this tree can be trained into many shapes or simply guided straight up and then left to weep downward.
This dramatic weeping evergreen makes a special addition to any landscape. This cultivar is becoming very popular across the us. Cedrus glauca pendula the atlas cedar is a cedar that is native to the atlas mountains of algeria and morocco. Weeping blue atlas cedar has powdery blue needles borne in whorls or a spiral pattern.
As the name indicates the weeping blue atlas cedar has a weeping shape. Naturally slow growing with a sprawling horizontal habit though often trained into an upright serpentine form. Cedrus atlantica glauca pendula weeping blue atlas cedar. Weeping atlas blue cedar bonsai tree cedrus glauca pendula 125 00 in stock.
The blue atlas cedar cedrus atlantica glauca group has blue green foliage and unlike many trees that bear the common name cedar is a true cedar. Similar in all characteristics to the other varieties of lebanon cedar with differences that are hard to discern. It was one of 100 trees that were donated to the redwood empire bonsai society by a woman from humboldt county that had inherited the collection after her mother had passed away. Weeping atlas blue cedar bonsai tree.
On average the weeping blue atlas cedar will be 10 feet tall at maturity and 15 to 20 feet wide. Here is a blue atlas cedar that i purchased this summer.