This is a beautiful full feathery tree with dark green needles with white banded undersides. Useful as a full shaggy specimen with a floppy top or can be sheared into a feathery hedge. Sun to shade in humus-rich soil. This beautiful Native is very similar to T.canadensis. Blue-green foliage with silvery cast.
Needles grow all around stems to give a soft tufty appearence.
Slow growing in the garden reaching 2-3m in twenty years. Good in sun to shade in humus-rich soil. Thimble Farms 175 Arbutus Rd., Salt Spring Island.