Abies Grandis
(Grand Fir)
Fast growing, tall, evergreen conifer with flattened needle-like, dark green leaves. Cones are bright green when young, maturing to a redish-brown.
Abies Nordmanniana
(Nordmann Fir)
Large, evergreen conifer with a narrow, conical crown. Dense, glossy-green foliage on drooping branches. Large brown cones.
Cedrus Libani
(Cedar)
Gigantic and stately evergreen conifer, its shape is made up of several neat horizontal layers of foliage. Barrel shaped cones are produced every other year.
Juniperus Communis
(Common Juniper)
Evergreen conifer with needle-like leaves curving into a sharp point. Purple-blue aromatic berry-like cones develop in Autumn and Winter.
Larix Decidua
(European Larch)
Fast growing conifer with orangey-brown bark, feather-like soft green leaflets which goes brown before dropping in Autumn. res grow pink flower-like clusters which ripen into brown cones.
Metasequia Glyptroboides
(Dawn Redwood)
Fast growing conifer with orangey-brown bark, feather-like soft green leaflets which goes brown before dropping in Autumn.
Picea Omorkia
(Serbian Spruce)
Graceful, slender evergreen conifer with dark green needle-like leaves.
Picea Pungens Glauca
(Blue Spruce)
Narrow, triangular shaped evergreen conifer with blue-grey needles. Popularly used as Christmas trees.
Picea Sitchensis
(Sitka Spruce)
An important timber species, an evergreen conifer with flattened, sharp needles, radish-yellow flowers pollinated into cylindrical pale-green cones, which ripen to brown in the Autumn.
Pinus Nigra Corsicana
(Black Pine)
Large fast-growing evergreen conifer with grey-black bark, dense branches, stiff needles, and cones which open in May and develop to brown seeded cones.
Pinus Radiata
(Monterey Pine)
Large, evergreen conifer with a broad, rounded crown and dense dark-green needles and large cones.
Pinus Sylvestris
Scots Pine
One of only three of our native conifers. the grand evergreen conifer has needle-like blue-green leaves, red or yellow flowers which mature into grey-brown cones.
Pinus Wallichiana
(Bhutan Pine)
Large, broad evergreen conifer with blue-grey long needles and large drooping cones.
Pseudotsuga Menziesii
(Douglas Fir)
Evergreen conifer with green needles which have white stripes underneath. In Autumn the female cones develop from yellow-pink to brown straight hanging cones. A popular Christmas tree.
Taxus Baccata
(English Yew)
One of the longest native European species, its evergreen leaves are dark green and pointed into a tip. Unlike other conifers, the Yew doesn't bear its seeds in a cone, instead enclosed in a red-berry like 'aril.'
Thuja Plicata
(Western Red Cedar)
Popular for timber, a tall evergreen conifer with a brown-red bark and dark glossy-green scale-like flattened sprays of foliage. Flowering cones are small, radish-purple and on the tips of branches maturing into small slender cones.
Tsuga Heterophylla
(Western Hemlock)
Evergreen conifer with a narrow crown and dark-brown ridged bark. Soft, flat, needle-like leaves with small, thin-scaled cones.