Botanical Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii
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Common Name: Douglas-fir  
Plant photo of: Pseudotsuga menziesii
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Water Saving Tip:

Check the soil's moisture level before watering.

You can reduce your water use 20-50% by regularly checking the soil before watering.

  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Tree, Conifer

 

Height Range

25-40', 40-60', 60-100'

 

Flower Color

n/a

 

Flower Season

n/a

 

Leaf Color

Blue Green, Grey Green

 

Bark Color

Grey

 

Fruit Color

Brown

 

Fruit Season

Persistent

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: Connon Nursery
  • Description

  • Notes

Douglas-fir is a lovely, dramatic large evergreen with sweeping horizontal branches with pendulous branchlets that gives it an airy, graceful appearance. Though it grows taller in nature, it gets about 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide in cultivation. It has blue-green to grey-green needles and long tan cones that are persistant. Young trees have smooth, grey bark with resin blisters; mature trees have fissured, darker bark.