Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldcrest' ☼full sun ❅hardy ✿evergreen ★ Award

• 6 Feb, 2013
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Preferred common nameMonterey cypress 'Goldcrest'
FamilyCupressaceae

Cupressus are vigorous, evergreen trees with flaking or scaly bark, often with columnar or narrowly ovoid crowns, small, often aromatic, scale-like leaves and small, spherical female cones

'Goldcrest' is a narrowly columnar, evergreen conifer making a medium-sized tree with bright golden-yellow foliage in ascending sprays

Suppliers
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Awards
Award of Garden Merit
How to growSunlight
Full sun Aspect
South-facing, North-facing, West-facing or East-facing
Sheltered
Cultivation
Grow in moist but well-drained soil in full sun. Protect from cool, drying winds. Tolerates dry conditions. Can be used for hedging but will require regular pruning
Soil
Well-drained
Acid, Alkaline or Neutral
Chalk, Clay, Sand or Loam
Propagation
Propagate by seed or semi-hardwood cuttings

Suggested planting locations and garden types
Architectural, Coastal, Low Maintenance or Hedging/Screens

How to carePruning
No pruning required

Pests
Can get cypress aphid
Diseases
Susceptible to coryneum canker
CharacteristicsPlant type
Conifer or Tree

Habit
Columnar/Upright

ResilienceHardiness
H4 (hardy)
ColourFoliage
Yellow in Autumn, Spring, Summer and Winter

SizeUltimate height
Higher than 12 metres

Ultimate spread
2.5-4 metres

Time to ultimate height
20-50 years