Sowing months
Mar–Apr, Oct
Sunlight
Full sun, cool air
Water
Weekly the first three years
Mature size
20–50 m
First harvest
Timber year forty
Family
Pinaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
beauty, biodiversity
Sow in
winter
Care
Needs altitude and cold; a plains planting fails.
The Himalayan cedar — a slow, magnificent, cold-climate conifer.
Growing it
Needs altitude and cold; a plains planting fails.
What it is for
Timber and hill amenity planting; a two-century tree.