what types of trees or shrubs are these?

last year

We saw these trees recently in Houston and loved them- but can’t tell what they are. They look kind of like baby live oaks but they aren’t big enough and their leaves and multiple low trunks make me think that’s not it. Welcome others input!

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
last year
That looks like a conifer or needled, usually evergreen, tree, not a broadleaved tree like an oak. In Texas, I'd suspect some sort of juniper, probably ashei.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
last year
the pic need to be taken about 5 feet closer.. along with a scale of the needles.. and a pic of the cones if any are around. ..

ken
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lkloes
last year
Can’t zoom in enough to tell for sure but it looks like a juniper. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. I’d rip those out in a heartbeat. We have them all over every 1960s subdivision in the SF Bay Area.
charles kidder
last year
I would guess juniper too. Might be an arborvitae.
BillMN-z-2-3-4
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It looks 'Juniperusy' to me also.

Ashei has short needle growth but without an up-close picture, it's like identifying while driving by in a car. :-)
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I like when old gnarly evergreens are trimmed to look like bonsai trees. Not easy to do well, and hard to plan for because nurseries tend to sell young vigorous plants, not old plants with "character."
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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oh i dont know.. nickel... if yo have thousands of dollars per tree.. i can refer you to nurseries that sell what you want.. i mean.. after all.. you are talking about 20 to 30 to 40 year old plants... you arent going to find those at bigbox for 50 bucks...

btw rob.. many junipers have juvenile and adult needles... so if we do ID a name... you might not find a babe that look like these... for another decade ... foliage wise i mean ...

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Sigrid
last year
Great trees. I have some Eastern Cedars that have a bit of that look ,at least after I trimmed off all the dead branches. They might be cedars, but probably not the same as mine, I'm in Maine.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
last year
It would be really helpful not to refer to junipers as "cedars". They are not. Not even in the same plant family and the usage is confusing.
Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
last year
Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa' maybe?

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what types of trees or shrubs are these?

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)

ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5

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