Cedars / Cypress and Cedar Elm Natural to Texas and Drought Tolerant

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

The fact that there is something romantic and storybook like about weeping cedars was not lost on this homeowner!  Don’t you want to just sit at that window and read nursery rhymes from Mother Goose to a little one?

Blue Atlas Cedars

Blue Atlas Cedars

Blue Atlas Cedars mature to over 50 in height.  Plant it with room to grow.   Professionally moving a tree can be very expensive.  They drop needles and sometimes cones (if they have them) so you may not want this tree over a walkway or any structure that must be swept, and certainly not over your roof.
Blue Atlas Cedars

Blue Atlas Cedars

Blue Atlas Cedars

Blue Atlas Cedars

Weeping Blue Atlas Cedars in group of threeWeeping Blue Atlas Cedars in group of three


Traditional Cedars in Texas Landscape Design

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Group of 20th century cedars traditional landscape - out of favor now but incredibly beautiful.

Group of 20th century cedars traditional landscape – out of favor now but incredibly beautiful.

Cedars in Dallas

20th century cedars traditional landscape – out of favor now but incredibly beautiful.

Scientific Name: Ulmus crassifolia

The Cedar Elm grows naturally in Texas in almost any soil and tolerates intermittent rain and dry conditions.  This cedar has a rounded crown with glossy green leaves that have a thick sandpaper like texture.

As Cedar Elms start to mature the rougher bark starts to form and is light brown to gray which is highly ridged and deeply furrowed.

Cedars
Spartan Juniper - Italian Cypress - Hemlock

Spartan Juniper – Italian Cypress – Hemlock – Not sure which.

Dallas Landscape Design Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Dallas Landscape Design Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

These cedars and magnolia are about 25 years old.

These cedars and magnolia are about 25 years old.

These cedars are about 20 years old. I love the barberry that has been allowed to grow naturally and has not been sheared.

These cedars are about 20 years old. I love the barberry that has been allowed to grow naturally and has not been sheared.

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Exotic welcome!

Dallas Landscape Design Forest Pansy with Cedars

Forest Pansy with cedars inviting streets side welcome.

 

Cedars in Dallas

Cedars in Texas

Deodar Cedars in Texas: Typically Deodars have a pyramidal shape, with soft grayish-green needles and drooping branches. Many reach 40 to 50 feet tall growing two feet a year. Some can become extremely wide a and 20 to 30 feet in width. The trunk will remain straight with lateral branches nearly horizontal and drooping. Leave lots of room for spreading.

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

Dallas Landscape Design Gray Cedars and Cypress Best Shrubs for Texas

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Cedars in Landscape Design Texas

Cedars in Landscape Design Texas