TWISTING AND TURNING IMPRESSIVE SHRUBBERY
FEATURES:
- Spiral-like forming foliage
- Deep green evergreen foliage
- Gives your garden interesting shape and texture
- Foliage itself twists on branches and is soft to the touch
- Great for screening and privacy gardens
- Hand selected fresh from our grower
- Ships in a plant-safe designed box
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Mature Height: 8-9' tall
- Mature Width: 6-10' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 10-15' apart
TWISTING AND TURNING IMPRESSIVE SHRUBBERY
FEATURES:
- Spiral-like forming foliage
- Deep green evergreen foliage
- Gives your garden interesting shape and texture
- Foliage itself twists on branches and is soft to the touch
- Great for screening and privacy gardens
- Hand selected fresh from our grower
- Ships in a plant-safe designed box
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Mature Height: 8-9' tall
- Mature Width: 6-10' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 10-15' apart
Why plant Contorted Hinoki Cypress?
Our contorted Hinoki Cypress is an unusual and attractive shrub with red tinted bark. This Cypress is quite contorted! With branches that twist and turn, creating a fun to look at illusion that will add a unique shape in your garden. This shrub is easy to grow and will turn into a broad upright specimen in your garden. This shrub can work well by itself, or mixed in with other colorful conifers. Hinoki Cypress introduce a whole kind of texture and dimension into your garden. These shrubs are rather slow growers, they can be used in planter boxes so all of its special qualities can be enjoyed up close. Foliage on a Hinoki Cypress is a rich green color while soft and full it twists in many directions. Your garden will never be ordinary with Contorted Hinoki Cypress.
How to use Contorted Hinoki Cypress in the landscape?
Contorted Hinoki Cypress is a very interesting shrub that will add plenty of texture and variety to your yard. Cypresses work great in a privacy setting as they are thick, rock gardens to add texture, regular lawn planting to build definition, or use it in your garden as an accent plant.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-8
How To Plant Contorted Hinoki Cypress
Hinoki Cypress prefer to grow in full-sun with moist and well drained soils. They aren't too picky about soil types as long as they can breathe. Maintenance is minimal.
How To Water
Our Cypresses need weekly regular watering, or more in extreme heat.
How To Fertilize
Incorporate Elements Starter Plant Food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer, start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late fall. If planting in the fall, use Elements fertilizer while planting and start your regular annual fertilizing the following fall. Continue this for the first three years to get your plant well established as it gives your tree the nutrients it needs to produce lush new growth for the following spring.
How To Prune
Pruning is not required, but it is recommended to remove the dead and diseased branches.