Description

A spectacular smaller growing cultivar featuring luminous gold foliage over underlying blue-green older foliage; conical in shape with loose, slightly pendulous foliage; an attractive border or screen as well as an accent shrub for the landscape

Landscape Attributes

Golden Showers Lawson Falsecypress is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

Golden Showers Lawson Falsecypress is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Golden Showers Lawson Falsecypress will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 8 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 70 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for acidic soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selection of a native North American species.