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Cupressus Macocarpa conifer ☼full sun ❅hardy ✿evergreen ★ Award


Cupressus Macocarpa conifer ☼full sun ❅hardy ✿evergreen ★ Award   (Cupressus Macocarpa)

Preferred common nameMonterey cypress 'Lutea'
FamilyCupressaceae

Cupressus are vigorous, evergreen trees with flaking or scaly bark, often with columnar or narrowly ovoid crowns, small, often aromatic, scale-like leaves and small, spherical female cones

'Lutea' is a loosely conical tree with a rather bushy habit, the young foliage light yellow, becoming greener with age

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How to growSunlight
Full sun Aspect
South-facing, North-facing, West-facing or East-facing
Sheltered
Cultivation
Grow in moist but well-drained soil in full sun. Protect from cool, drying winds. Tolerates dry conditions. Can be used for hedging but will require regular pruning
Soil
Well-drained
Acid, Alkaline or Neutral
Chalk, Clay, Sand or Loam
Propagation
Propagate by seed or semi-hardwood cuttings

Suggested planting locations and garden types
Coastal, Hedging/Screens or Flower borders and beds

How to carePruning
No pruning required

Pests
Can get cypress aphid
Diseases
Susceptible to coryneum canker
CharacteristicsPlant type
Conifer or Tree

Habit
Columnar/Upright

ResilienceHardiness
H4 (hardy)
ColourFoliage
Green and Yellow in Autumn, Spring, Summer and Winter

SizeUltimate height
4-8 metres

Ultimate spread
2.5-4 metres

Time to ultimate height
20-50 years



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Hi Paul ... fascinating structure ..
good shades of green in this area.

20 Feb, 2013

 

Thanks Terra - only £20 was happy with it , just noiced the huge conifer in front of it now - it was tiny a few years ago

20 Feb, 2013

 

Amazing how quickly some conifers can grow ...

20 Feb, 2013

 

true Terra - most on front are fast growers too :D

20 Feb, 2013

 

These do light up in the sun

22 Feb, 2013

 

Bought another one today mate - posting it on FB later :)

22 Feb, 2013

 

Excellent mate I'll have a look.

22 Feb, 2013

 

will have to do again - sadly I didn't get home til 5 and the light was bad and looked blurred - I love these conifers though

22 Feb, 2013

 

Ok mate, yes they make a lovely statement don't they.

22 Feb, 2013

 

yes very !

22 Feb, 2013

 

some books claim it's slightly frost tender! - ours on front survived -10

22 Feb, 2013

 

A lot depends on wind chill mate but natures a wonderful thing :-)

22 Feb, 2013

 

can't see this very cold dry air doing much good :( Almost was going to put a rude word then lol - Damn winter will do !!!

22 Feb, 2013



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