Fernspray Hinoki Cypress – 3 Gallon Pot

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Foliage Color:  Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Mild Pine Scent

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer – more info, Disease, Drought (when established), Insect

A unique coniferous evergreen tree with no two specimens looking the same, the Fernspray Hinoki Cypress is full of character. It has an upright habit with open branching ending in straggly stems bearing distinctive, flat, fern-like sprays of deep green foliage. Growing 6 to 8 feet tall and half as wide in 10 years with no pruning, and ultimately to 20 feet tall and half as wide at the base, the Fernspray Hinoki is a highly attractive addition to any garden, especially Asian theme gardens. With an annual pruning in late winter, it can be kept to half its size and a fuller form if desired. That said, we like it’s natural look. If you do decide to prune it, that’ll be about the only maintenance to what is otherwise a carefree plant.

This cultivar, Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Filicoides’, originated long ago in Japan. P.F. von Siebold imported the first plants to Leiden, The Netherlands in 1860. It is relatively uncommon in North America. The name filicoides means fern-like; from Latin: filix = fern, and from Greek: oides = resemblance. 

The Fernspray Hinoki Cypress is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full to part sun. It is tolerant of dry soil conditions when established. Maintenance is minimal with little to no pruning required. That said, it can be pruned for size control and shaping purposes.