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Swanes Golden is a very popular evergreen conifer with a narrow form and aromatic, flecked golden foliage and deeper golden tips. A very useful tree as a ornamental specimen, along driveways and in containers.
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A very narrow, columnar form with magnificent, bright, golden yellow new growth that retains good color throughout the season. A stunning specimen on its own, this selection makes great impact when used in mass plantings as an evergreen screen, windbreak, or tall hedge.
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It features dense, green to golden yellow evergreen foliage that can be clipped to shape or left to its own elegant outline. Being naturally pencil-thin they really can be left to their own devices and still look very elegant.
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A narrow tree with dense, upright branching and bright yellow foliage. Juvenile leaves are seen only on young seedlings and the adult gland-less scale leaves are compact and lateral clasping the stem with an abrupt pointed apex. This coniferous tree forms an upright and fastigiate too broad spreading habit.Grown as a single specimen or in large group plantings along avenues.
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They make excellent screens or hedges but are also seen in formal gardens creating a majestic impact when planted along driveways and broad paths.