Michigan State University Extension
Home Horticulture - 01700214
01/01/96
Grow false cypress cultivars in a sunny location in
moist, well drained loam. The plants transplant reasonably
well when root pruned, but the height, spread and growth
rate depend on the cultivar selected. Some of the cultivars
listed grow too large for use in foundation plantings.
There may be problems with sun scorch.
Cultivars are: 'aurea nana'--dwarf, 3 feet tall, yellow
foliage; 'Boulevard'-- 3 to 8 feet tall, bluish foliage;
'filifera nana'--dwarf, 2 1/2 feet tall, branchlets
pendulous, threadlike; 'Golden Mop'--3 feet tall, foliage
yellow, threadlike; 'nana'--dwarf, 2 feet tall, dense,
spread is twice the height; 'plumosa compressa'--dwarf, 2
feet tall, rounded, dense; 'plumosa rogersii'--dwarf, 3
feet tall, golden yellow foliage; 'squarrosa minima'--
dwarf, 3 feet tall, dense, mosslike foliage.
