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Article: Cunninghamia: Just Fir Enough in the Garden
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 13, 1988
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A garden with too many conifers may look simply gloomy, but most
gardens I see have too few rather than too many.
A beautiful evergreen not mentioned before and not common in
Washington is the cunninghamia or China fir. It grows up with a
single trunk to begin with, but often new shoots from the ground
develop into trunks, too, so it is not unusual to see a specimen with
four or five trunks.
The tree is somewhat tender to cold, but should be perfectly
safe as far north as Philadelphia and possibly farther. I have known
the tree to endure 12 degrees below zero without injury, but
sometimes in cold winters the newest twigs are killed back.
A note on this tree in the Royal Horticultural ...