{"id":749,"date":"2011-01-13T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-12-19T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:33:32","slug":"hardy-dwarf-deodara-cedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/01\/13\/hardy-dwarf-deodara-cedar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Dwarf Deodara Cedars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_0103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DSC_0103\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_0103-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Glacier Blue&#39; Deodara Cedar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the past ten years, deodara cedar (<em>Cedrus deodara<\/em>) has carved its niche into Southern Appalachian gardens (USDA zones 6 and 7). Three zone 6 hardy dwarf cultivars, &#8216;Glacier Blue&#8217;, &#8216;Devinely Blue&#8217;, and &#8216;Feelin Blue&#8217;, fit\u00a0 today\u2019s smaller garden space better than most tree forms of deodara cedar that typically reach 70-80 feet in height. All three sport lovely soft blue-green foliage.<\/p>\n<p>Deodara grows best in full sun to light shade in moist fertile, well-drained soil.\u00a0Deodara needs good air movement to prevent problems with needle diseases. New deodaras require regular watering during summer dry spells. All\u00a0three cultivars make great accent plants among large boulders,\u00a0other dwarf conifers,\u00a0and\u00a0rockery plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Glacier Blue&#8217; grows\u00a05-8 feet tall in ten years. Growth rate is moderate with a spreading to slightly pendulous arching form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Devinely Blue\u2019 grows only 3-6 inches annually. It matures into a 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide shrub. New spring foliage starts out gray-green and turns bluish green.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Feelin Blue&#8217;\u00a0exhibits a prostrate growth form similar to ground cover junipers. At maturity it reaches 3-4 feet in height\u00a0and 6-8 feet in spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past ten years, deodara cedar (Cedrus deodara) has carved its niche into Southern Appalachian gardens (USDA zones 6 and 7). Three zone 6 hardy dwarf cultivars, &#8216;Glacier Blue&#8217;, &#8216;Devinely Blue&#8217;, and &#8216;Feelin Blue&#8217;, fit\u00a0 today\u2019s smaller garden space better than most tree forms of deodara cedar that typically reach 70-80 feet in height. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[617,604,630,7,231,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}