I was working part time at a conventional garden-center-nursery in southeast Pennsylvania and I saw one of this cultivar in a pot being sold in a 3.5 gallon pot grown by the Conard-Pyle Nursery Company in West Grove, PA and I bought it. I planted way back in the backyard behind the vegetable garden to block a view of the neighbors somewhat. It does grow about 1 to 1.5 foot/year. It is a female selection that bears nice blue "berries" that really are tiny cones encased in a waxy coating. The foliage ranges from medium to dark green depending on the season and conditions. Mine has borne some Cedar Rust galls through the years, though not really a lot. I did go up on a ladder and pruned back the upper portion before I took the photo of the whole plant, so it is not showing itself as pyramidal as it would be. I have not been really nice to my particular maturing tree the last few years as I did not want it to get as large as it eventually wants to be, with the telephone wires behind it. I pruned it quickly one day without trying to do a good job. A few years later, it had grown back, looking better.

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