Blue Atlas Cedar

Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'

Blue Atlas Cedar

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Height : 50 feet
Spread: 40 feet
Sunlight: full sun
Water Usage: dry to moist
Landscape Use: Accent, Vertical Accent
Flower Color: N/A
Bloom Period:N/A
Foliage Type: evergreen
Foliage Color: Blue
Deer Resistant?: No

Quick Description
One of the most valuable landscape trees in the South, with a wide, spreading habit and silvery-blue needles, incredibly stately when mature; leave a very large open space for this tree to reach its peak value in maturity

What Makes it Special?
Blue Atlas Cedar is primarily valued in the landscape for its characteristic tiered habit of growth. It has attractive blue evergreen foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain blue throughout the winter.


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Landscape Attributes
Blue Atlas Cedar is an open evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a stunning habit of growth which features almost oriental horizontally-tiered branches. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and usually looks its best without pruning, although it will tolerate pruning. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Planting & Growing
Blue Atlas Cedar will grow to be about 50 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 40 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 5 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.



Want more info on sizes?
IndyPlants sells landscape size plant material. These often come in black nursery containers and are classified in sizes such as #2, #3, #5, etc. This correlates to the volume of the container, 2 gallon, 3, gallon, 5 gallon, etc. The bigger the number, the larger the pot, and the larger the plant. You’ll also see larger sizes such as 2” BB, 2.5” BB, 3” BB, etc. This stands for ‘Balled & Burlapped’. These plants are usually much larger and are not transported in black nursery pots. The sizing correlates to the diameter of the trunk of the tree.

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