Chamaecyparis obtusa 'SAFFRON SPRAY'

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'SAFFRON SPRAY'
Hinoki cypress

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	0.5-1.5m
USUAL WIDTH	0.5-1m
LEAVES	evergreen conifer
COLOUR OF LEAVES	+multicoloured:green and yellow
FLOWERS	insignificant or non-blooming
LOCATION	full to partial sun
USDA zone (lowest)	4 (down to -34°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Conifers

This variety of Hinoki cypress should be on a pedestal in our garden centre as it holds a name very similar to our company name: Saffron Spray. Well, it is nice but just for a name we will not go overboard.

It is an evergreen, compact conifer with mid green leaves and random appearance of bright yellow flat sprays as we see on Calocedrus decurrens "Aureovariegata". The rest of the shrub bears tiny, fine needles and these sprays look so different as if they had nothing to do with it, as if they perhaps had fallen on it from the sky. In any way they are a rightful part of the shrub and they can help this shrub find its place among other conifers which it will highlight thanks to its combination of vivid yellow and green colours.

It belongs to obtusa cypress group which predetermines it to be a slow grower which it truly is. In 20 years it will not exceed 1.5 tall and about 1m wide forming an oval to cone-shaped shrub. It likes medium fertile, acidic, moist but well-drained soil. Fully hardy to -34°C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 25-02-2010

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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.