Cypress Kings Gold #3 pot

King's Gold Sawara False Cypress

Common Name: Yellow Mop

A highly attractive small and shaggy evergreen conifer that is sure to brighten up the landscape while adding unique texture, 'King's Gold' is dwarf form of Gold False Cypress forms a dense, weeping mound of evergreen, golden-yellow foliage that has proven to be more sun and heat resistant than other golden Chamaecyparis pisifera varieties. At only 4 to 5 feet tall and equally as wide when all grown up, its smaller stature makes it a fine specimen for smaller garden spaces or groupings in larger borders. A low-maintenance plant that is drought tolerant when established and the deer turn their nose up to it.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 4 to 5 feet tall and equally as wide., the King's Gold False Cypress is ideal for use as an eye-catching specimen in smaller garden spaces and home foundation plantings or groupings in larger landscape borders. It's smaller size lends well to containers. A fine addition to conifer gardens, Asian theme gardens, yellow theme gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Spacing:  3 to 4 feet apart for solid hedge; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b 

Shrub Type: Coniferous Evergreen Shrub 

Height at Maturity: 4-5'

Width at Maturity: 4-5'

Spacing:  3-4' for solid hedge; 8'+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding, Arching, Broad, Slightly Pyramidal, Pendulous Branches

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: None

Flower Size:  NA

Flowering Period: NA

Flower Type: NA

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color: Bright Golden-Yellow

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries:  No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full Sun, Morning Sun with Light Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Evening Sun

Water Needs:  Average, Low when established

Soil Type:  Clay (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Silt, Sandy

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Neutral)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – Disease, Drought (when established), Insect, Rabbit