Varieties of False Cypress
‘Baby Blue’ False Cypress
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Baby Blue’ is a compact selection that forms a dense shrub of silvery-blue foliage. It grows 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Plant in zones 4-8.
‘Cripsii’ Hinoki False Cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Crippsi’ features golden foliage that deepens to dark green. It grows 50 feet tall and 25 feet wide. Plant in zones 4-8.
Golden Threadleaf Cypress
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera’ offers chartreuse, lacy, evergreen foliage and grows 40 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Plant in zones 4-8.
Hinoki False Cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa bears upward-tilting branches, craggy, peeling bark, and fine-textured evergreen foliage. It grows 70 feet tall and 20 feet wide. Plant in zones 4-8.
‘Sungold’ False Cypress
Chamaecyparis psifera ‘Sungold’ is a dense evergreen shrub with threadlike golden foliage on weeping branches. It grows 8 feet tall and 12 feet wide. Plant in zones 4-8