Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' if its bluer than the pix seem ... ???? .. or one of those hot zone trees im not intimate with ... of which.. the name is escaping me right now ...

if it is.. it has a lot of potential to be that close to the house ..

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refresh our memory.. again.. where you are ...

ken

Ken is right, Cedars are absolutely MASSIVE trees. I see them all over planted way too close to houses. 'Atlas Cedar' or closely related variety of 'Cedar of Lebanon' though? I would have guessed the latter but not a conifer expert here.

May well be a cultivar, which would be slower growing. Also, these take to pruning very readily. You can keep them any size or shape that you want, as long as you don't mind the ongoing project. I have a C. deodara 'Hollandia' right in front of my house that I was about to move, because it was going to get too big for the spot, but I decided to prune it instead. They look really cool when the trunk attains some girth and the branches are shorter and less congested. But that kind of a project is not for everyone!

Looks like Cedrus libani 'Glauca Pendula' perhaps. I like it =).

Yes: resembles a scarecrow growth habit type Himalayan cedar such as the one sold under the repeatedly used in commerce - yet erroneous - combination that Garen provided above, and other names. It also appears similarly young examples of at least two or more of the four Horstmann introductions selected for additional cold hardiness often also tend to have similar profiles. Even though these are said to become more dense than typical for the species later.

Thanks for your replies guys. The cedar is green like in the pictures, it’s not bluer.

All plants on the market with this same general appearance - despite some of them being traded as Cedrus libani forms - turn out to be C. deodara cultivars when examined. Apart from having definite C. deodara foliage characters they often even display the seed cones of that species in comparatively small sizes.

Anyone here thinking of one of these examples of mis-attributed material when saying the plant asked about looks like C. libani will therefore be using an incorrect point of reference as the basis for that opinion.

C. deodara looks very different from C. atlantica/libani.

Foliage and cone characters are the main guides. Even then precise placement of some plants may be obtuse, with the stenocoma cedar falling between the Moroccan and typical libani morphologically. And it being suspected that some cultivated material in western plantings is of hybrid (C. deodara x C. libani) origin.

The tree asked about being full of many branches may point to it being one of the aforementioned Horstmann introductions.