For thuja: Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'

For narrow yellow that can take sheering:

Juniperus communis 'Gold Cone'

if you look at your own pic.. note the top growth.. is outgrowing the sheared growth from last year below ..

indicating to me.. it will grow ...what looks like at least 8 to 12 inches per year.. and possibly more in your zone ...

in other words.. the plant in the pic is a fraud...

unless you are willing to treat it as an annual.. and buy a new one every year...

it has way too much potential to be sheared back for the purpose shown .. and probably yours...

and if it grows 12 inches a year.. that means in ten years.. it will be 10 feet tall ...

ken

Here is a Cupressus macrocarpa 'Wilma', which was found as a mutation on a 'Goldcrest'.
At the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
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Thanks for the suggestions. Ken, I was looking for something similar to what I snapped in the photo, not necessarily that particular cultivar. Not worried about it being a "fraud", as I don't mind pruning, as long as it isn't a cultivar that wants to end up being 20'. Sluice that looks very much like what I saw. I'll check that out, as well as the other suggestions. I want the plant to stay at around 3 to 4 feet max. I don't mind pruning at all, as long as I'm not working with a cultivar that wants to end up being 20', as the trunk would eventually become so thick, it would outgrow the small squares in my parterre garden.

Patty S.

This post was edited by hoosierquilt on Sat, Apr 5, 14 at 23:52

Yes, golden Monterey cypress cultivar - that will grow much larger than in these pictures.

These are everywhere up here now, despite being burned by temperatures below, say 15 degrees F. When the apparent vogue for these first started they were offered mostly as indoor plants.