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Evergreen Trees
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X Cupressocyparis
leylandii
Leyland Cypress
•Height: 100’
•Spread: Narrow
pyramid
•Scale leaves that are
flattened
•Full Sun
•Used as a
•Problems: Bag worms
& shallow roots
Magnolia
grandiflora
Southern Magnolia
•Height: 60-80’
•Spread: 30-50’
•Alternate, Elliptical,
Entire & Pinnate
Leaves
•Glossy top and brown
underneath
•Creamy white 10”
wide flower
•Sun-Part Shade
Pinus mugo
Mugo Pine
•Height: up to 10’
•Spread: up to 15’
•1-3” long needles,
2/fasicle
•Sun-Part Shade
•Problems: Scale
Pinus strobus
Eastern White Pine
•Height: 50-80’
•Spread: 20-40’
•5 needles/fasicle that
have a thin white line
on the middle
•Leaves appear to
have a bluish-green
hint
•Sun
Loblolly Pine
Pinus taeda
•Height: 50-80’
•Spread: 30-35’
•Needle like leaves
12-18” (3 per
fascile)
•Full Sun
•Acidic Soil
•One Central
Leader
Evergreen Shrubs
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Glossy Abelia
Abelia x grandiflora
•Height: 4-6’
•Spread: 3-5’
•1-1.5” long glossy
green leaves
•Pinkish-white tube
shaped flowers
(summer)
•Semi-shade
Japanese Aucuba
Aucuba japonica
•Height: 4-5’
•Spread: 3-4’
•4-8” deep green or
spotted leaves
•Good in shady places
•Semi-shade
•Dioecious
Buxus
sempervirens
Common Boxwood
•Height: 3-8’
•Spread: 3-4’
•Simple with white
midrib on underside
•Part shade
•Used as a hedge
along a building
Evergreen
Euonymus
Euonymus japonica
•Height: 5-10’
•Width: 5-8’
•Waxy, solid green and golden
edged leaves (variegated will
revert to solid-must prune off)
•Opposite, simple, obovate &
serrated
•Stem-squarish
•Shade-Sun
•Problems: Leaf spot,
euonymous scale, & aphids
Dwarf Burford
Holly
Ilex cornuta ‘Dwarf
Burford’
•Height: 5-6’
•Width: 4-6’
•Oblong leaves
with 1-3 spines at
top and slight
recurve
•Sun-shade
Fosteri Holly
Ilex x attenuata ‘Fosteri
•Height: 20-30’
•Width: 7-10’
•1-4 spines down the
upper half of leaf
•Alternate, simple,
elliptic-ovate, &
glossy
•Cluster of berries in
fall/winter
•Typical Pyramid
shape
•Sun-part shade
Helleri Holly
Ilex crenata ‘Helleri
•Height: 4’
•Width: 5’
•Wedge-based
leaves with crenate
margins, flat & ½”
long
•Mounding habit
•Sun-shade
•Good substitute
for boxwood
•Spider Mites
Dwarf Yaupon
Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’
•Height: 3-5’
•Width: 4-6’
•Green-reddish
brown leaves
•Alternate, simple,
ovate, & crenate
•Gray stems
•Sun-shade
•Drought tolerant
Juniperus
conferta
Shore Juniper
•Height: 1-2’
•Spread: 6-9’
•Awl shaped (1/2”
long) and usually in 3’s
•Stomata band with
bluish-green
underside
•Blue berry
•Sun-part shade
•Will grow on beach
dunes or in clay and
withstands severe
exposure
Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
•Height: 1-2’
•Spread: 4-8’
•Scale-like; bluishgreen in the
summer & plum in
winter
•Forms a thick mat
•Berry in fall
•Sun-part shade
•Withstands severe
exposure and
grows in any soil
•Problems-blight &
mites
Japanese Privet
Ligustrum
japonicum
•Height: 6-12’
•Spread: 6-8’
•Opposite, Simple, Ovate,
Entire
•4” long leathery with raised
veins on underside (curl at
apex)
•White panicle in May
(fragrant)
•Sun-shade
•Stems-large grey lenticels
•Sometimes grown as a small
tree
Wax Myrtle
Myrica cerifera
•Height: 10-12’
•Spread:8-10’
• Lanceolate leathery
leaves (aromatic)
•Serrate at apex and
olive colored
•Bluish-gray berry
(females only)
•Sun-shade
Heavenly Bamboo/
Dwarf Nandina
Nandina domestica
•Height: 6-8’
•Spread: 2-3’
•Pinnately-Compound
leaves, Lanceolate,
Entire
•1-1.5” long leaflets
•Pink/White Panicle
Flower (May-June)
•Green-spring
•Greenish-maroon/red
in winter
•Problem Free Plant
Catawba Rhododendron
Rhododendron
catawbiense
•Height: 6-10’
•Spread: 5-8’
•3-6” long/1-2” wide bluish green
leaves
•Alternate, Elliptical, Entire
•Flowers Lilac-Purple in April-May
& 5-6” wide (umbel shaped)
•Likes cooler climates (becomes
leggy in unfavorable conditions
•Part shade
•Leaves and flowers are bigger
than azalea
•Troubled by many pests