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Re: Wanting winter interest plants


>Out of curiosity I just flipped open my Index of Garden Plants and
>looked it up; there are a few cultivars listed:
>
>   'Aureovariegata'       foliage with scattered large pale yellow
>                          blotches
>   'Columnaris'           fastigiate habit
>   'Compacta'             globose to columnar compact habit
>   'Depressa'             dense globose dwarf, bronze leaves in winter
>   'Glauca'               leaves glaucous with conspicuous blue tint
>   'Intricata' ('Nana')   dense, upright, compact dwarf, brown in winter
>   'Riet'                 globose dwarf 2 1/2' high
>
>Krussman lists one more in his Manual of Cultivated Conifers:
>
>   'Horizontalis'         branches strongly horizontal, no longer in
>                          cultivation
>
>Anyone have any real experience with any of these?  As a zone 5 USDA
>person, I haven't seen too many.  Guess I need to travel more!
>
>Chris

My cedar isn't a cultivar but it has been through 3  Zone 5 (Ohio) winters
and is doing fine. No winter damage or dieback noticed. Growing well in
6.7pH soil.


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