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Identification of Evergreen Trees and Shrubs

Leaves Aren't Trash

Overgrown Evergreens

Plants for Wet Soils

Worst Landscape Weeds

Deer in Landscapes and Gardens

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 Overgrown Evergreens

Falsecypress (Chamaecyparis)

Gold thread falsecypress can become a very large plant!All but one species of falsecypress is native to the Pacific coastal regions of Japan and North America (Atlantic whitecedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides is native to bogs along the U.S. Atlantic coast). They all grow best when planted in locations having evenly moist, well-drained soils and protection from sweeping winter winds.

Hinoki Falsecypress

The Hinoki falsecypress and its dozens of cultivated varieties resembles - quite closely in some cases – our native American arborvitae.

Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa)
Six to twelve inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty feet wide
`Compact' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Compacta')
Three to four inches per year
Twenty feet tall and twenty feet wide
`Crippsii' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Crippsii')
Six to ten inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty feet wide
`Fernspray Gold' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Filicoides Gold')
Six to ten inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty feet wide
`Nana' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Nana')
One to three inches per year
Three to five feet tall and three to five feet wide
`Nana Gracilis' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Nana Gracilis')
Three to six inches per year
Six to ten feet tall and six to ten feet wide
`Pygmaea Aurescens' Hinoki falsecypress
(Chamaecypris obtusa `Pygmaea Aurescens')
Six to eight inches per year
Fifteen to twenty feet tall and fifteen to twenty feet wide

Threadleaf Falsecypress

Meanwhile, the dozens of cultivars of the sawara or Japanese falsecypress often resemble junipers.

`Boulevard' falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Boulevard')
Six to ten inches per year
Twenty to thirty feet tall and twenty to thirty feet wide
Dwarf Threadleaf falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Filifera Nana')
Four to eight inches per year
Ten to twenty feet tall and ten to twenty feet wide
Dwarf Gold Threadleaf falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Filifera Aurea Nana')
Four to eight inches per year
Ten to twenty feet tall and ten to twenty feet wide
`Mops' Threadleaf falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Mops')
Two to four inches per year
Five to ten feet tall and five to ten feet wide
Plume falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Plumosa')
Eight to twelve inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty to thirty feet wide
Golden Plume falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Plumosa Aurea')
Eight to twelve inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty to thirty feet wide
Compressed Plume falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Plumosa Compressa')
Four to eight inches per year
Fifteen to twenty feet tall and fifteen to twenty feet wide
Compressed Plume falsecypress
(Chamaecypris pisifera `Plumosa Compressa')
Four to eight inches per year
Fifteen to twenty feet tall and fifteen to twenty feet wide

Nootka Falsecypress

Finally, the weeping form of Alaska cedar, `Nootka’ Falsecypress, is becoming increasingly common in Central New York landscapes and can grow quite large in time.

Weeping Nootka falsecypress
(Chamaecypris nootkatensis `Pendula')
Eight to twelve inches per year
Thirty to fifty feet tall and twenty feet wide