Rob's plants
home garden plants wildlife seed photos
plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook

Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Carolina Sapphire'

 
Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Carolina Sapphire'
Common name Arizona cypress
Family cupressaceae
Life cycle tree (Z7)
Size 40-60'
Light sun
Cultural notes drought tolerant

Upright-growing grey-blue-green conifer. Commonly used as a Christmas tree around here (Texas), although it is an acquired taste in that role for those accustomed to spruces and firs for their holiday decoration. We purchased one as a Christmas tree our first year in Houston, from a saw-your-own lot, and decided to buy a somewhat neglected potted specimen at a local nursery the following year. The first few months, through winter, we grew it in a large pot set in our backyard, but it often blew over in windy weather, winding up worse for the wear from spending more time in horizontal orientation than it appreciated. So in March of the following year, I set it out in the back border behind our pond, where Amy hoped to decorate it for Christmas. That hasn't actually happened, but in the last few years it has grown into a real tree, not Christmas-tree like in stature (more like a voluminous Santa), but creating a nice green backdrop to the plantings near our pond and in our rock garden zone.

Arizona cypress
Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Carolina Sapphire'

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Carolina Sapphire'


I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.

Your name

Your comments