Plant Guide

Welcome to Fossil Creek Nursery's plant guide. This plant guide does not reflect inventory or guarantee any items will be in-stock.

By clicking the plant categories to the right you can view all plants within our catalog that fit that category. You can also search keywords at the top of the page and further filter those searches by using the dropdown items below.

Mr Bowling Ball Arborvitae photo courtesy Bailey Nursery

Arborvitae, Mr Bowling Ball

Conifers

An excellent choice for a low-maintenance landscape. This versatile, perfectly round evergreen can be used in borders, rock gardens, to enhance foundation plantings or highlighted as a specimen, especially in formal gardens. The foliage varies dramatically from more common arborvitae. Soft, finely textured needles are sage green and almost feathery in appearance. Needs protection from winter sun. 

Dwarf Balsam Fir

Fir, Dwarf Balsam

Conifers

Bird nest spruce look alike. Short, flattened deep green glossy needles. Needs some protection and good moisture. Partial Shade.

Horstmann's Siberlocke Korean Fir

Fir, Horstmann's Siberlocke Korean

Conifers

Curved needles reveal a silvery-white underside giving gleaming color and unique texture. Broad upright growth habit. Needs some protection. Part shade.

Starker's Dwarf Korean Fir

Fir, Starker's Dwarf Korean

Conifers

A soft green Korean fir, nest shaped when young, developing into a mounding shape with age. Its wide and blunt tipped needles present a striking texture. Protect from hot direct sun.

Fir, Subalpine

Conifers

Native conifer with a narrow, conical growth habit. Blueish-green upright needles and black erect cones. Does best in the mountains.

Blue Atlas Cedar

Cedar, Blue Atlas

Conifers

Native to Atlas Mountains in northern Africa. Growing habit is loosely pyramidal when young, becoming more flat-topped with long spreading branches with age. Needles are silvery-blue, curved at the tip and appear in tufted clusters. Cylindrical cones are 3 inches long and green maturing to brown. Best grown in deep, well-drained, acidic soils in full sun. Drought tolerant once established.

Cedar, Columnar Blue Atlas

Conifers

A narrow, upright form with blue-green needles. Prefers moist, well-drained soils.

Baby Blue Threadleaf Falsecypress

Falsecypress, Baby Blue Threadleaf

Conifers

A dwarf, compact form featuring soft, silver-blue foliage on a full pyramidal habit. Small, tidy and slow-growing perfect for smaller gardens and landscapes.

Jubilee Alaskan Cedar

Alaskan Cedar, Jubilee

Conifers

Very narow, weeping form of Alaskan Cedar. Jubilee has bright green needles and is fast growing. Does best in moist, well-drained soils. Part Shade to sun.

Dwarf Hinoki Falsecypress

Falsecypress, Dwarf Hinoki

Conifers

Irregularly globose, developing an upright habit with age. Dark green, compact foliage. Needs protection from heat and wind.