Conifers

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 80', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, conical crown, blue green leaves to 11 inches long.  Graceful, drooping foliage.  Long cylindrical cones.
Notes:  Rare in cultivation.  Predominantly grows at 600 - 3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan but extending north into Sichuan and south into Myanmar.  1 gallon size plants.

Pot Size:   2 Gallon Pot 2' - 4'

Family: Pineaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous with needles resembling a true larch.  Slow growing, broadly conical tree with horizontal branching.  Needles appear in clusters on short shoots.  Bright gold fall foliage.
Notes: Not often available.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Taxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Pacific Northwest
Soil:  Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  25' - 50’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Shrub or small tree.  Flattened needles with red fruit in fall.  Peeling red and brown bark. 
Notes:  Slow growing with drooping, horizontal branching.  West of the Cascades Taxus brevifolia is often found as an understory tree.

Pot size: Small round deep Pots 3"

Family: Cupressaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Slow growing.  Thick leaves with yellow-orange tipped leaves in sun.
Notes: Foliage looks like a fern or moss.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Cupressaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  2' - 4'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Slow growing.  Thick leaves with green on top and white stripes on the back.
Notes: Foliage looks like a fern or moss.  Great Plant Picks

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Cupressaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Slow growing.  Thick leaves with dark green on top and white stripes underneath.
Notes: Foliage looks like a fern or moss.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Cupressaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Vietnam
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Pyramidal, becoming irregular and flat-topped with age.  Juvenile and transitional foliage present. 
Notes: Recently discovered species named in 2002, resulting in a new genus of Xanthocyparis.  Only a few hundred trees remain in the wild.  In its native habitat X. vietnamensis grows in mixed forests between 1,060 - 1180 m elevations.  Should prove to be much hardier.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot