USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b  Find Your Zone

Shrub Type:  Coniferous Evergreen Shrub

Flower Color:  None

Flower Size:  NA

Flowering Period:  NA

Flower Type:  NA

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Blue Green, intense Plum Purple tones in winter

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Insect, Mildew, Periodic Wet Soil, Rabbit

 A very unique dwarf selection of Atlantic White Cedar, 'Heatherbun' forms a dense "bun" of fluffy looking heather green foliage during the warm seasons that turns to intense plum purple shades during the winter. Though it really doesn't require pruning, it responds well to an annual light shearing to maintain a more perfect rounded mound over the long term. Otherwise, with no trimming, it will take on a more natural mounded form, which we love! Unlike most other Chamaecyparis, this one will actually thrive in wet soil, provided the soil is sandy and peaty. Heatherbun is a slower grower adding up to 6 inches per year and maturing over the long term to 6 to 8 feet tall and wide. A fine addition to conifer gardens, rock gardens, home foundation plantings and anywhere the sun shines for at least 6 hours per day.

Heatherbun White Atlantic Cedar is easy to grow most any moist to wet but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to light shade. We suggest at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. It prefers a moist, fertile, peaty-sandy soil. and will appreciate some shelter from strong winds. Maintenance is minimal. No pruning required except to snip a rare, stray branch tip that is spoiling the shape of the plant. That said, the plant responds well to light shearing.

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