 It is planted in private gardens and public parks, although generally regarded as sensitive to drought and wind.Many of the plants available outside of its native range are named cultivars, selected for particular forms, textures, or foliage colours, such as very pendulous branching or shoots, a fastigiate or columnar shape, or a particularly bright blue or silvery glaucous foliage.This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).