Good yellow cultivars can add color to a garden. Falsecypress Chamaecyparis pisifera Golden Mop, Filifera Aurea Nana, Lemon Thread and Sungold add a gold or yellow accent plus interesting texture. Rainbow s End pushes green foliage in the spring, then pushes yellow midsummer. Tsuga canadensis Golden Splendor is a showy Canadian hemlock. For inexpensive pyramidal habits, Thuja occidentalis Sunkist and Yellow Ribbon are good performers.
Some conifers have bicolor, needles of stripes, spots or patches.
Bicolor-needled trees offer high interest and often tie various colors together . Dwarf highlight green topsides and blue undersides of the needles. Green and yellow variegation are found on Pinus densiflora Oculus-draconis. A variegated thread leaf Falsecypress with green and creamy-yellow foliage is Chamaecyparis pisifera Filifera Aureovariegata. A German plantsman who irradiated the seed of Korean fir and the result was Abies koreana Silberlocke which displays recurved needles showing the white undersides on curled foliage.