Tall Italian Cypress Trees

The fern-like foliage is soft and flowing, easily swayed by gentle breezes and lending a graceful accent to your landscape. Even in the winter your Bald Cypress Trees are sure to please.

Where the sun is sufficient, the trees will keep their foliage nearly to ground level, though extremely old trees can have a bit of bare trunk.Italian cypress is a darker green than many plants and this color, along with its serious-looking form, makes...

It's an extremely versatile tree that can be planted anywhere within its growing zones. Fantastic for use as a hedge, privacy screen, or property divider. The Blue Sapphire is a low maintenance Cypress that requires no upkeep to preserve its great shape.

The branches swing out like arms to wave hello or ask for a high five. They have branches that grow with an upward curve away from the trunk giving them a similar shape to Saguaro Cacti.

Improved Leyland Cypress trees are an improved cypress variety that puts the competition to shame by being extremely pest and disease resistant as well as drought tolerant. The Improved Leyland Cypress is perfect for areas with limited space because they...

If you've been saving a planting site for a special tree, this is it. Softened by drooping branch work with an irregular globe shape, the tree will add character like no other evergreen can.

Apart for a privacy hedge or further apart for a spacious property border. Stays green all year-round, giving you complete privacy. Per year! - Feathery soft texture - Drought Tolerant Leylands are the most popular privacy tree in the U.S.A. They grow...

You'll be seeing a lot more of these in higher end new home developments. A year while giving you dense foliage, soft texture and symmetrical shape. Per year! * Tolerant of many climates Italian Cypress trees give height to your foundation plantings without...

Because everyone wants this hot new tree in their landscape, they're selling out fast. Not only can they handle the cold, but they are also drought tolerant and have the ability to flourish in poor soils.

So versatile is the Goldcrest, it can be used to create a vibrant hedge, a portable container specimen or placed on the patio as an attractive topiary. Offering intense contrast to green, red and purple plants, the Goldcrest makes surrounding foliage...

In the South, a late May application and another in July would be about right. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the...

Pruning can help make more bushy. In fact the wood is so strongly scented that the tree was planted around the houses, churches and cemeteries in Tuscany as people believed that the air was “freshened” by the tree, giving rise to the quintessential...

This time, I'm getting in a canoe for a better look at history.Photo at right by Steve Hildebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsClose-up photo of bald cypress trunks by Eric in SF via Wikimedia Commons

To encourage thick bushy trees simply trim back the limbs that have outstretched the rest of the tree. Leylands should never be planted in soils that are excessively wet for long periods of time.

We recommend planting Carolina Sapphire Cypress in a line with about 6 feet apart from each other to create quick privacy, however they can be planted at 10 to 12 foot intervals if you don't mind waiting a bit for privacy.

Select a window that provides good sunlight and turn the container regularly to give each side a turn. You can start growing lemon cypress trees (‘Goldcrest') indoors or outside.

Irrigate regularly. Ideally, soil should be acidic, moist and sandy. The trunks of bald cypress flare at the base, developing knobby root growths. If you've seen photos of this tree, they were likely taken in the Deep South when the tree grows in large...

Rejuvenating a cypress tree necessarily means trimming, but you have to be careful how you wield those clippers. You can pick up the pruners again in late spring or early summer if necessary to control growth or maintain an attractive tree shape.The rule...

Cypress trees growing in a regularly fertilized lawn don't generally need additional fertilizer once established. Cypress trees are fast-growing North American natives that deserve a prominent place in the landscape.

When it regrows, it will fill in more thickly.: Take heed where you cut. At that point, annually trim the top six to twelve inches below the desired height. It has a natural pyramidal shape and elegant, dark green, fine-textured foliage.

The only Leyland cypress disease treatment for this is to prune out infected branches, being sure to sterilize the pruners. Surrounding bark can show a dark brown or purplish discoloration.Canker diseases are also caused by fungus, and usually only attack...

Prune the shrubs every year in midsummer to maintain the height and shape the hedge. To form a pruned hedge, set out the trees with 3 feet of space between them.When they reach a height about a foot beyond the desired height of the hedge, top them to...

It does prefer moist, fertile soil rather than poorly draining, wet soil.These false cypress shrubs can be grown in mass plantings, rock gardens, on hillsides, in containers or as standalone specimen plants in the landscape.Keep the shrub moist, especially...

Winter damage can be trimmed out in spring. With a medium growth rate, these false cypress cultivars usually stay dwarf at about 5 feet tall or less. They obtained the common name “mops” from their foliage, which bears an appearance to the strings...

), also known as Hinoki false cypress, is a member of the Cupressaceae family and a relative of the true cypresses. Hinoki cypress does not adapt well to being transplanted, so be sure to choose a planting location which can accommodate the tree's size...

What is Atlantic white cedar? (1.5 m.).If you have seeds, you can plant the tree outdoors in autumn, or start them in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse. No pruning or fertilization is required.

Unlike most other species in the family Cupressaceae, it is deciduous, losing the leaves in the winter months, hence the name ‘bald'. It grew quickly and is one of my favorites. But he listened to me while I explained to him that I wanted a tree to...