Chamaecyparis pisifera 'SQUARROSA ALBOSPICA'

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'SQUARROSA ALBOSPICA'
Sawara cypress

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	1-2m
USUAL WIDTH	1-1.3m
LEAVES	evergreen conifer
COLOUR OF LEAVES	varigated:blue-green and cream
FLOWERS	insignificant or non-blooming
LOCATION	full sun
USDA zone (lowest)	4 (down to -34°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Conifers

Squarrosa is a special group of Sawara cypress. The varieties inside this group vary significantly with size, foliage colour and shape. Squarrosa Albospica is a unique and at this time hard to find variety as it seems to have been replaced with another variety called Mariesii with similar characteristics. Still, Squarrosa Albospica has features that are unique. It makes short sprays of lacy foliage that emerges soft green and matures blue-grey with purely creamy white ends about 1-3 cm long. This variegation creates a gorgeous effect that the plant is covered with stardust. The bark is reddish-brown. It grows slowly or moderately, and its ultimate size is commonly around 2m but varies with location.

Sawara cypress prefers moist, slightly acid soil but is adaptable to most soil types provided it is well-drained. It can take strong frosts but dislikes extremely hot summers in dry soils, though, it loves full sun. Keep it mulched at all times to keep the soil most. No pruning is necessary but trimming can be done in early spring after all frosts. Never cut into old wood. Fully hardy to -34°C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 15-02-2012

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GLOSSARY

STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.