Eastern Hemlock

General Locations

These trees are common along streams and on cool slopes throughout the mountains and extends somewhat into the adjoining regions.
 

Their Needles

The flat needles are round-tipped, 1/3 to 2/3 inches long and are marked on the lower surface with two pale lines (stomata). The needles narrow at the base to form short, slender stems that are attached to rounded, dark orange-colored, persistent, woody pads on the twigs. The pendant cones grow on short, slender stalks from the tips of branchlets, usually remaining on the tree until the following spring.
 

Age and Height Capabilities

Hemlock is remarkably tolerant to shading by larger trees; many remain in the understory in natural stands for 25 to 200 years. It is a long-lived tree -­individual trees more than 500 years old are common.
    The tree may reach a height of 60 to 100 feet with a trunk diameter of 2 to 4 feet. It often has a broad-based pyramid shape. Ends of branches often are drooping and "feathery." The bark on old trunks is dark gray and is divided into narrow, deeply furrowed, rounded ridges. The wood is light, soft, brittle and difficult to work. It is used for rough or construction lumber and for pulpwood.

Soil Tolerances

The soil requirements for eastern hemlock are not exacting (35). They are usually characterized as being moist to very moist but with good drainage. In the Lake States the species grows on upland sandy loams, loamy sands, and silt loams, often with an abundance of ground or coarse rocky material throughout the upper profile deposited from glacial or fluvial material. In Canada and the northeastern States the soils under eastern hemlock tend to be shallow loams and silt loams, often over granite, gneiss, and slate bedrock . Typically, most soils are highly acid, particularly in the upper horizons, but some are near neutral.

Maiden Hair Tree

• Native to China (This species is very old; in the days of the dinosaurs Ginkgos covered the temperate world).

Hardiness Zones: 4 to 8
Height: This tree can grow to 100 feet tall and have a diameter of 14 feet.
Type: deciduous tree
Annual Growth Rate: 12 to 18 inches

Comments: Ginkgo is practically pest free, resistant to
storm damage, and casts light shade. Ginkgo tolerates most soil types; moist, well drained soil, wide pH range.

Mountain Pine

Location

Mountain pine usually grows along with hardwoods and other pines or in small pure stands on dry, rocky slopes and ridges in the mountains and upper Piedmont.
 

Their Needles, cones, and bark
 

The needles are rigid, usually twisted, 11/2 to 2 1/2 inches long, in fascicles (bundles) of two that are often crowded in clusters. They are dark bluish-green and are deciduous in either the second or third year.
    The cones of this pine are 2 1/2 to 3 inches long and in clusters of three or four (sometimes more). They are light brown, lustrous when ripe and are armed with a stout, hooked spine at the top of each scale. The cones have a very knobby appearance. They may open and shed seed as soon as they ripen or remain closed on the tree for two to three years or longer.
    The thick bark is separated into irregular plates on the lower part of the trunk; the surface of the plates is covered with thin, loose, dark-brown scales that are tinged with red,

Height

The tree commonly is about 30 to 40 feet tall in forest stands, with trunk diameters of 1 to 1 1/2 feet. In the open, the tree has a short trunk and a spreading, irregular crown..

Soil tolerances

Soils include sand, silt, and clay loams. It likes Full sun light.

Deodar

Height:
over 40 ft. (12 m)

Spacing:
30-40 ft. (9-12 m)

Hardiness:
USDA Zone 7b (-12.3° C to -14.9° C)
USDA Zone 8a (-9.5° C to -12.2° C)
USDA Zone 8b (-6.7° C to -9.4° C)
USDA Zone 9a (-3.9° C to -6.6° C)
USDA Zone 9b (-1.2° C to -3.8° C)

Sun Exposure:
Full Sun

Foliage:
Grown for foliage
Evergreen

Soil: clay, loam, sand, slightly alkaline, acidic, moist, and well-drained.

Lawson Cypress

Location

Native of North America but widely planted as an ornamental or hedging species.

Grows up to 45m (148ft)

Likes chalky soils, sand dunes; bogs, margins of intermittent streams, and drier sites on ultramafic rocks; and productive soils on sedimentary rocks and diorite usually more acidic and have higher concentrations of potassium and lower calcium: magnesium ratios.

Likes full sun or partially shaded sun light.

Lawson Cypress

Soil Tolerances

• Position: full sun or partial shade
• Soil: moist, well-drained neutral to slightly acid soil (Best on silt and clay loams, Fine-loamy, Mixed, Mesic).
• Rate of growth: slow-growing
• Other Features: contact with the foliage may aggravate skin allergies
• Hardiness: fully hardy

Height and spread: 3m x 2m (10ft x 6ft).

This plant is poisonous!

Western Red Cedar

Location

Western Red Cedar is obtained in British Columbia and parts of the northwestern United States from a tree which reaches 50m or more in height and 1 to 1.25m in diameter.

Soil tolerances

It prefers soil types, drained, of sand, sandy-loam, loam, clay loam, and silt loam.

Hardiness Zone: Usually occurs in warm areas from an average of 43 degrees F to 53 degrees F.

Hinoki Cypress

Hinoki cypress can stand 100 feet tall and spread 20 to
30 feet. It has a moderate growth rate and does not tolerate air pollution.

Hinoki cypress prefers cool, moist soil and tolerates partial shade, though
it prefers a sunny location.

Leyland Cypress

Location

This tree will grow 60 to 70 feet tall and 12 to 20 feet wide. Heights of 70 to 100 feet are not uncommon.. It grows rapidly when young (3 to 4 feet per year),

Soil Tolerances

Flourishes in clay, loamy, sandy, acidic, and alkaline type soils.

The Leyland cypress forms a graceful pyramid, with dense pendulous branches and fine, feathery foliage. This foliage, on flattened branches, is dark green or blue-green and is small and scale like. The fruit (cone) is small and brown, and creates no litter problems.

This tree prefers sun to part shade. It is very adaptable, however, and tolerates acidic or alkaline soils and poor drainage on occasion. It withstands salt spray and is suited for coastal landscapes. Prune only during dry periods to help prevent disease.

Colorado Spruce

Hardiness Zones: 2 to 6 
Height: 60 ft
Spread: 20 ft
Form: pyramidal 
Type: narrow-leaved evergreen tree 
Annual Growth Rate: less than 12 inches 

Light: Full sun, doesn't tolerate shade.

Soils: moist, well-drained loams, and a ph of 6-7.5 (Sandy, clay, loam, Fine-loamy, Mixed, Mesic)

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Heights trees grow to from planted to full grown

Soil and sun requirements for all kinds of trees