A sculptural blue evergreen with sweeping, irregular branching that creates a living focal point in every season
FEATURES:
- Blue to silvery-blue needles for crisp, high-contrast color year-round
- Architectural, irregular form that reads as a living sculpture in the landscape
- Graceful, sweeping branches that create movement and strong character as it matures
- Outstanding specimen tree for focal beds, courtyards, and lawn panels
- Minimal pruning needed beyond shaping or selective cleanup as it grows
- Strong winter interest with evergreen color and dramatic structure
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
When a tree has strong character, keep the supporting plants calm. Choose a simple base planting and repeat it, a low evergreen, a consistent groundcover, or a clean mulch ring, so the cedar reads like a designed focal point instead of a plant surrounded by noise.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 6-9
- Mature Height: 10-15' tall
- Mature Width: 12-20' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 12-20' apart
Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar
Bower & Branch Trees and Plants
Cedrus atlantica glauca 'Horstmann'
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A sculptural blue evergreen with sweeping, irregular branching that creates a living focal point in every season
FEATURES:
- Blue to silvery-blue needles for crisp, high-contrast color year-round
- Architectural, irregular form that reads as a living sculpture in the landscape
- Graceful, sweeping branches that create movement and strong character as it matures
- Outstanding specimen tree for focal beds, courtyards, and lawn panels
- Minimal pruning needed beyond shaping or selective cleanup as it grows
- Strong winter interest with evergreen color and dramatic structure
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
When a tree has strong character, keep the supporting plants calm. Choose a simple base planting and repeat it, a low evergreen, a consistent groundcover, or a clean mulch ring, so the cedar reads like a designed focal point instead of a plant surrounded by noise.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 6-9
- Mature Height: 10-15' tall
- Mature Width: 12-20' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 12-20' apart
Why plant Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar?
The Blue Atlas Cedar is a magnificent evergreen tree with a regal demeanor and sublime, sky-blue needles. It lends a distinguished air to large properties. But what if you don’t have a large property? Then ‘Horstmann’ Blue Atlas Cedar is the tree for you. Growing at the modest rate of only about 6 inches per year, this choice version of the classic Blue Cedar stays compact and never gets out of control. Light up small spaces with the same dreamy blue color and sharp style of its big brothers! Blue Atlas Cedar is native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria. This majestic tree was welcomed into European gardens in 1839, when a French gardener planted the first one. Since then, it has given rise to several other forms, such as the Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar. Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar was selected from a crop of seedlings in the 1970s in a German nursery. It was named after the nurseryman who discovered it, Günter Horstmann. Horstmann was also the originator of the exquisite Korean Fir known as ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’.
How to use Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar in the landscape?
Plant Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar as a brilliant evergreen specimen within the mixed borders around your home. It will anchor the bed without overtaking it. This stunning Cedar also looks handsome in the company of other slow-growing conifers.
How To Plant Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar
Because it’s adapted to life in North Africa, Blue Atlas Cedar tolerates much hotter and drier weather than most evergreen trees. It can be a little sensitive to cold and harsh winds, however, so site Horstmann Blue Atlas Cedar in a sheltered but warm and sunny place. Fast-draining soil is essential. Keep your tree well supplied with water during the first year or two of establishment; after that, it will be much more self-sufficient. You should rarely, if ever, need to prune Horstmann, and pests and diseases don’t bother it.
Frequently Asked Questions
This conifer does not produce showy blooms. It may form cones as it matures, but it’s primarily grown for its blue evergreen needles and distinctive branching form.
Not usually. Horstmann is valued for its natural, irregular silhouette. Prune selectively in late winter to remove dead or damaged branches, or to lightly guide shape if needed while the tree is young.
It becomes more resilient once established, but it will look its best with deep watering during prolonged heat or dry periods. Consistent moisture in the first growing season is the most important for strong root establishment.
