Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar is a slow-growing weeping conifer tree with a natural sprawling horizontal habit that can easily be trained upright. The pendulous branchlets have short tufts of silvery blue needle-like foliage that creates a waterfall like effect. Prefers full sun and rich, moist, well-drained acidic soils. Heat and drought tolerant once established, and can tolerate alkaline soils.
MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance plant. Tip blight may occur. Branches may break in heavy snow.
LANDSCAPE USES: Specimen or mass plantings, Borders, Naturalized Areas, Woodland Garden, Screening, and Shade Tree.
COMPANION PLANTS: Crape Myrtle, Magnolia, Japanese Maple
IMAGES: Photo by David J. Stang, Cedrus atlantica Glauca Pendula 5zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Liné1, Cedrus libani ssp. atlantica 'Glauca Pendula' needles by Line1, CC BY-SA 3.0, (3) Liné1, Cedrus libani ssp. atlantica 'Glauca Pendula' 01 by Line1, CC BY-SA 3.0, (4) Photo by David J. Stang, Cedrus atlantica Glauca Pendula 2zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (5) Sborisova, Cedar in Vladislav Varnentchik museum in Varna, BG, CC BY-SA 4.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
