Spring Nursery Finds: Slender Hinoki Cypress - April 2022
The tour of conifer trees that I spotted at the Big Box nursery continues today with a look at the third tree that I've come to know: the Slender Hinoki Cypress. Earlier this week, I posted the hardship of seeing a Japanese White Pine . And then about my mixed and uncertain feelings about seeing a columnar Norway Spruce . Today? Another tree that I 'dreamed' about back in 2019: The Slender Hinoki Cypress . You can see the label below: Hinoki False Cypress - Chameacyparis obtusa 'Gracilis'. I posted about this species in 2019 and talked about how the features (columnar/narrow, the movement, the needles) scratched me right where I itch . Last Fall, I invoked this particular tree in talking about how I have an affinity for the wood box-planter with upright conifer on top . Of the three that I've recently posted (White Pine, Columnar Norway Spruce and this Slender Hinkoki Cypress), this one is THE ONE THAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE. If I'm going to buy on