Conifers > Monterey Cypress
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This Monterey cypress makes a wonderful specimen tree for a small, sunny, sheltered garden with good draining soil. Plume-like sprays of gorgeous, yellowy-gold, lemon-scented foliage and bulbous, brown, female cones. For the best results the narrowly pointed to columnar shape requires to be balanced with other rounded and prostrate forms.
Location: full sun.
Soil Type: any good draining soil.
Growth Rate: vigorous.
Other Characteristics: bulbous, brown, female cones.
Plant Hardiness: fully hardy.
Plant Care: Remove any competing leaders that appear in spring, cutting out the weaker or crooked shoot cleanly at its base.
Matches: Taxus baccata, Juniperus horizontalis 'Blue Chips', Buxus sempervirens, Anemone x hybrida, Hedera helix 'Green Ripple', Pinus mugo 'Pumilio Group'