Blue Atlas Cedars Caring For A Blue Atlas Cedar In The Garden

How do you care for blue atlas cedar?
How do you prune Atlas cedars?
How big do blue atlas cedars get?
Why does blue atlas cedar lose needles?
What is wrong with my blue atlas cedar?
How long do blue atlas cedars live?
How do you propagate blue atlas cedar?
How do I make my cedar tree bushy?
Can I cut the lower branches of a cedar?
Why are cedar trees bad?
Can you trim a blue atlas cedar?
Is there a dwarf blue atlas cedar?

How do you care for blue atlas cedar?

You'll have to stake and train weeping Blue Atlas cedar trees from the time you plant them to create the form you have selected. For best results, try planting in full sun in well-draining, loamy soil. Feed weeping blue Atlas cedars in early spring with a balanced fertilizer.

How do you prune Atlas cedars?

To maintain blue atlas cedar as a foundation plant, it is absolutely essential to prune it regularly to keep it in shape. Prune it back in early spring before growth begins. Make sure that you keep some young growth and not remove more than a third of the plant.

How big do blue atlas cedars get?

Slow growing; reaches 40 to 60 ft. tall, 30 to 40 ft. wide or larger, with age. Conifer; prized for foliage.

Why does blue atlas cedar lose needles?

Strong winds pull moisture through the stomata (pores) in the needles, but plants cannot take up additional moisture from frozen ground to make up for the loss. The result is the browning you see on the foliage of your blue atlas cedars.

What is wrong with my blue atlas cedar?

One of the most common problems we see with Blue Atlas Cedars (Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca') are the browning of its needles. ... Flagging occurs naturally in cedars in late summer/early fall and they will shed old foliage to get ready for new growth. This is not cause for alarm.

How long do blue atlas cedars live?

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.

How do you propagate blue atlas cedar?

Propagation from seed:

The first step in propagating a Blue Atlas Cedar is to collect the seed. After a mature cone is found, the seeds must be removed from the cone. The seeds can be easily removed if they are soaked in warm water for roughly twenty four hours.

How do I make my cedar tree bushy?

Pruning a cedar hedge

Identify new growth – this will be a lighter green than the rest of the tree.
Trim 1/3 or a maximum of half the new foliage. Cedars are not able to produce new growth on old wood.
Keep part of the new growth so that the cedar continues to grow and fill out.

Can I cut the lower branches of a cedar?

Some experts recommend against ever pruning cedar trees. However, if cutting back cedar trees is in the cards, proceed very carefully. If you prune too deeply into the branches of the cedars, you're likely to kill them.

Why are cedar trees bad?

But perhaps the scariest characteristic of cedar trees is their potential to add explosive fuel to wildfires. Hallgren says when a drought is severe cedar trees become a great fire risk because of their oils.

Can you trim a blue atlas cedar?

Blue atlas cedars take to pruning very well. I plant them often to use as espalier plants just because you can cut them back to any grow and it will thrive. The problem is the trunks will get large despite the radical pruning. You can prune there trees into bushy poles if you like.

Is there a dwarf blue atlas cedar?

The dwarf blue Atlas cedar will reach 10 feet tall at maturity and has a spread of 5 to 6 feet. Like other Atlas cedars, this tree is slow-growing and nursery stock can take 10 years to reach its full height.