Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides' Reference and very showy

and very showy

The reward is quieter and rarer than a japonica in full flush: fine

Upright and branching

Few cultivars in American horticulture are so permanently tied to a single small nursery in Aiken

and 'California Dawn' plays the part well: an evergreen specimen or informal screen that flowers when the borders have gone quiet

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides' Reference and very showyChamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides', the fernspray hinoki cypress, is grown for one quality above all: foliage held in flattened, fern like sprays that gather along the branches in dense, layered clusters and cascade in soft, pendulous fans. The effect is unmistakably oriental, deep green the year round, and unlike anything else in the conifer border. The species comes from Japan, where hinoki cypress has been revered for centuries. The timber, close