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....