A living evergreen waterfall, draping silvery blue foliage in graceful cascades all year long
FEATURES:
- Dramatic weeping form with flowing, pendulous branches
- Silvery blue foliage that adds cool color in every season
- Strong architectural presence for focal-point plantings
- Evergreen privacy and texture with a refined, graceful mood
- Cold hardy and wind tolerant once established
- Best color and form in full sun with well-drained soil
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip
If you want a taller, more upright look, stake the central leader when the tree is young and gently tie it as it grows. This encourages a strong vertical line while the side branches keep their signature drape. Plant in full sun for the best blue color, and prioritize well-drained soil to keep roots happy. Keep a clean mulched ring around the base to protect moisture levels and highlight the form. This is a tree that does not need much pruning, just occasional shaping to guide the silhouette you want. Think of it like styling hair, not giving a haircut.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-7
- Mature Height: 20-40' tall
- Mature Width: 8-12' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 10-12' apart
Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar
Bower & Branch Trees and Plants
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Glauca Pendula'
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A living evergreen waterfall, draping silvery blue foliage in graceful cascades all year long
FEATURES:
- Dramatic weeping form with flowing, pendulous branches
- Silvery blue foliage that adds cool color in every season
- Strong architectural presence for focal-point plantings
- Evergreen privacy and texture with a refined, graceful mood
- Cold hardy and wind tolerant once established
- Best color and form in full sun with well-drained soil
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip
If you want a taller, more upright look, stake the central leader when the tree is young and gently tie it as it grows. This encourages a strong vertical line while the side branches keep their signature drape. Plant in full sun for the best blue color, and prioritize well-drained soil to keep roots happy. Keep a clean mulched ring around the base to protect moisture levels and highlight the form. This is a tree that does not need much pruning, just occasional shaping to guide the silhouette you want. Think of it like styling hair, not giving a haircut.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-7
- Mature Height: 20-40' tall
- Mature Width: 8-12' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 10-12' apart
Why plant Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar?
Almost as if it's dancing, Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar has so much graceful movement to it. Dressed in blue-green needles on decadently weeping branches, this pyramidal evergreen stands out in the landscape. Adding unique charm, texture, and character, bringing your garden to life! Plant this mid-sized beauty near boulders, gravel, stonework, or water features for a picturesque vignette you'll love to glimpse outside your window every day.
Most trees native to the Pacific Northwest look out of sorts when made to live in less pampered conditions than they’re used to. Not Weeping Alaskan Cedar. Though at home on the cool, mild, rainy coasts of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, it performs surprisingly well in the East and Midwest. It never attains the size here that wild ones do on the West Coast, but who has the space for a 100-foot-plus tree anyway? Weeping Alaskan Cedar brings that lush Northwest look to the landscape without getting out of bounds.
How to use Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar in the landscape?
The Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar adds a whimsical charm to any garden space or landscape that it's planted in. Weeping branches resemble a waterfall of blue-green evergreen beauty! Plant this evergreen tree to bring a quaint cottage-like feel to your space.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-7
How To Plant Blue Weeping Alaskan Cedar
Weeping Alaskan Cedar likes lots of sunshine, though in areas where summer highs are often in the 90s, it appreciates some afternoon shade. Growth is best when given regular water, but not so much that the ground remains soggy for hours. Its roots are rather shallow, and this tree should be planted in a site that is sheltered from strong winds. Snow, it can handle. Alaskan Cedar was designed to shed precipitation of all sorts. Snow can’t grab onto the waxy sprays of foliage, hanging in long branchlets straight down.
How To Water
Water twice weekly for the first 3-5 weeks; then water weekly for the remainder of the year until winter. When you water, water very slowly and very thoroughly. The water needs to reach to the bottom of the root ball and that takes time. Watering needs may be altered due to extreme weather conditions.
How To Prune
Prune when needed in late winter. Prune only when necessary to keep the natural beauty and form of your Alaskan Cedar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The foliage holds its cool blue to silvery tones year-round, with the best color typically in full sun and well-drained soil.
It depends on the look you want. Staking the central leader while young can create a taller, narrower form. If left unstaked, it will still grow beautifully, with a more naturally cascading silhouette.
Very little. Most pruning is optional and cosmetic, focused on shaping or clearing a pathway. Light, selective trimming is best, since the natural weeping form is the star.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
Our Guarantees
3-YEAR-TREE GUARANTEE:
Bower & Branch offers a Three-Year Tree Guarantee on all of our trees, sizes X-Large and up. Only the finest and the most experienced growers are awarded the opportunity to grow for Bower & Branch, so we offer the best guarantee available.
If your tree(s) should fail for any reason during the three-year guarantee period, you will receive an online gift card in the amount that you originally spent on the tree.* You can then use this online gift card for any Bower & Branch Purchase.
* Bower & Branch provides online gift cards in the amount of the original purchase price of the tree(s). The amount does not include any additional costs such as delivery, planting, tax, or any other products or services. Online gift cards can be applied towards any Bower & Branch purchase on BowerandBranch.com and have no expiration dates. Bower & Branch does not guarantee tree replacement or availability of any desired product at any time. Cash refunds are not offered. Bower & Branch requires that all original tags and receipts are present when a guarantee request is initiated. The Bower & Branch Three-Year Guarantee only applies to plant material that has been planted in the ground. Container plantings are NOT covered.
At Bower & Branch, we do our best to honor all guarantee fulfillment requests to ensure customer satisfaction. However, we reserve the right to refuse the request if the required guarantee steps were not satisfied. Bower & Branch also reserves the right to deny any guarantee fulfillment request that is made as a result of animal damage, problems with plant hardiness and zone issues, or acts of nature (snow storms, hurricanes, and similar).
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- Phone: 866-873-3888
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