Catalog Description
A stately, fast growing conifer. Maintains a symmetrical, columnar form with densely packed, blue-green foliage. Color changes with winter cold to unique bronze cast. Attractive bark is soft red with shredded surface texture. A semi-formal single specimen or plant in groves or woodland. Excellent background for contrasting seasonal accent trees. Suited to linear plantings for windbreak or screening. Evergreen conifer. Full sun. Fast growing 30 to 40 feet tall, 20 to 30 feet wide. |
Design Ideas
A semi-formal single specimen or plant in groves or woodland. Excellent background for contrasting seasonal accent trees. Suited to linear plantings for windbreak or screening. |
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Average Landscape Size
Fast growing 30 to 40 ft. tall, 20 to 30 ft. wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
A symmetrical, columnar form with densely packed, blue-green foliage that has a bronze cast in winter. Attractive bark is soft red with shredded surface texture. Good specimen. Plant in groves or linear plantings for windbreak or screening. Evergreen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Fast Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Columnar |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 7 (>60 to 90 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 7 (0 to 10 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 5 (-20 to -10 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Inconspicuous
| Flowering Time/Season |
| No noticeable flowers |
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Propagation
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Attributes
Deer Resistant
Easy Care Plant
Oriental Garden
Tolerates Acidic Soil
Windbreak
Year-round Interest |
Foliage
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Plant Lore
The similarity of this Asian tree to Sequoiadendron gigantium of California has led many botanists to believe they are closely related despite separation of continents by the Pacific, leading many to conclude they once inhabited the same primordial land mass. |
Plant History
This evergreen conifer is classified in the Taxodiaceae with the bald cypress and redwoods of North America. This native of Japan and China was officially introduced to the west in 1842 and classified by Scots botanist David Don. |
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