Southern Lace Hinoki Cypress

Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Southern Lace’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Conifer

Height at Maturity: 15-20′

Width at Maturity: 6-8′ at the base
Spacing: 6-7′ apart for solid hedges or privacy screens; 12′ or more apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Conical, Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate

Foliage Color: Medium Green

Fragrant Foliage: Mild Pine Scent

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Insect

Description

An exceptionally attractive and fast-growing Hinoki Cypress, ‘Southern Lace’ sports some of the most soft and lacy foliage of any conifer we grow. It has an open-branched, narrow pyramidal form with gracefully arching branchlets that are sure to please the eye when used as a focal point specimen, in groupings, or in privacy screen plantings. Though some websites list Southern Lace as “slow growing,” we’ve seen it add 12-24 inches or more a year in height…super-fast for a Hinoki Cypress!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 15 to 20 feet in height and 6 to 8 feet wide at the base, the Southern Lace Hinoki Cypress ideal for use as a focal point specimen, to frame the corners of tall homes and other structures, in groupings, or arranged in single or staggered rows to form a very attractive privacy screen or buffer. Also suitable for growing in large containers and a fine addition to conifer gardens, rock gardens, and Xeriscape gardens (low water needs).

Suggested Spacing: 6 to 7 feet apart for privacy screens; 12 or more feet apart for space between trees

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Cypress tree is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. That said, it will need a well-lit indoor location and will need to be transplanted to the landscape when it becomes to large to grow in a container.

Growing Preferences

The Southern Lace Hinoki Cypress is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full to part sun. It is exceptionally low maintenance, requiring little if any pruning to keep its naturally narrow, pyramidal form.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Cypress trees.

How To Plant & Care For Cypress Trees

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