Conifers Archives

Reducing thuja, a battered look for a year, before bursting back!

Thuja, or Arborvitae, is a long-living tree that just keeps growing. If you miss a few pruning seasons, you’ll have to cut it back hard! Here’s what Michel experienced.

5 keys for a beautiful winter garden

How should you care for your garden in winter? Snezana Gerbault, an agronomist and engineer, packed all her tips in book that was prized in several recent events.

Four-seasons hedge, every season sees it as beautiful as ever

Why not go for a four-seasons hedge? Bored with drab monochrome conifers? Bring a bundle of delight to the neighborhood with a mixed hedge of ornamental flower, leaf and fruit shrubs.

Yew, an evergreen hedge and topiary tree

Common yew is a famous and wonderful hedge conifer.

Chamaecyparis, the Lawson false cypress

Chamaecyparis is a very beautiful conifer that looks very ornamental, often called the Lawson cypress, Port Orford cedar or false cypress.

12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous

Out with the unending lines of thuja! These days, planting mixed hedges is all the fad. In such a hedge, evergreen leafage, colorful blooms and species that

Juniper, a very ornamental shrub

Juniper is a very cute little conifer, famous for its berries from which alcohol is made.

Maritime pine bark, an excellent acidic mulch

Pine bark is an excellent mulch, both useful and very elegant.

Thuja, a true hedge conifer

Thuja isn’t the most elegant conifer but it does truly excel in cutting off the view for intrusive onlookers.

A green balcony, even in winter

Don’t leave your garden boxes and pots empty during the cold season: many plants will let you landscape your balcony with plants in winter.

A balcony in winter overloaded with green ivy and red and white cyclamen flowers.

The monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana

Araucaria araucana, or Monkey puzzle tree, is a surprising evergreen conifer that’s very ornamental.

Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree

Cedar tree, a magnificent conifer

The cedar tree is certainly one of the most beautiful conifers, and one of the most majestic, too.

Cypress canker

Cypress canker is really the only disease known to this conifer. Although generally quite hardy, a canker infection can devastate

Cypress tree, a superb conifer

The cypress is certainly one of the kings of the conifers to establish elegant hedges, but it is also remarkable as a standalone specimen.

Leyland cypress, the king of hedges

The Leyland cypress is certainly one of the conifers most used to set up a hedge.

Leyland cypress shaped into squares in a parc

Juniperus, a superb conifer

Juniperus is a very cute little conifer that is also called common juniper.

Juniper health benefits and therapeutic value

Native to India and Asia, juniper berries are very much appreciated in cooking and, additionally, they harbor many health benefits that result in a high therapeutic value.

Juniper berries on the branch, blueish color

Stone pine, a majestic conifer

Stone pine is a typical Mediterranean tree and its shape looks quite like that of a giant parasol.

Small conifers and dwarf conifers for pots, containers and small gardens

At the onslaught of Winter, the garden loses most of its structure and greenery. Small conifers are a great opportunity to restore some of these volumes thanks to the many possibilities these dwarf-sized evergreens share.