Add graceful structure and year-round evergreen beauty to your landscape with Horstmann Atlas Cedar, a compact conifer prized for its elegant branching habit and bright needle clusters. This slow-growing cedar develops ascending branches that create a refined upright form, making it an excellent focal point for foundation plantings, rock gardens, conifer collections, and smaller landscape spaces.

Its soft evergreen foliage provides rich texture and color throughout every season while maintaining a manageable size perfect for residential gardens. Horstmann Atlas Cedar is especially valued for its architectural appearance and easy-care growth habit, bringing timeless beauty to both formal and naturalistic garden designs. These healthy plants are shipped established in 1 gallon nursery pots and arrive approximately 18 inches tall.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Horstmann Atlas Cedar
✔️ Approximately 18 inches tall
✔️ 1 gallon pot plant
✔️ Compact evergreen conifer tree
✔️ Healthy, rooted landscape plant
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Horstmann Atlas Cedar
Botanical Name: Cedrus atlantica ‘Horstmann’
Plant Type: Evergreen conifer tree
Growth Stage: Established potted plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun
Soil: Well-draining soil
Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
Mature Height: Approximately 12 feet
Mature Width: Approximately 8 feet
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
USDA Zones: 6–9
Container Friendly: Yes, when young and properly maintained

Care Tip: Plant in full sun with good drainage for healthiest growth and strongest branching structure. Minimal pruning is needed, but occasional shaping can help maintain its elegant form.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.