Cypress Soft Serve #5 pot

Soft Serve False Cypress

Common Name: Soft Serve

The Cypress Soft Serve is a highly attractive False Cypress with a form that would make it the perfect outdoor Christmas tree, Soft Serve forms an upright uniform pyramid to 10 feet tall and 5 to 6 feed wide at the base making it a good fit as a specimen in smaller landscape spaces or as an accent or to frame corners or an entrance in home foundation plantings. Also excellent for privacy screen plantings and its compact size makes it a good fit for pots, planters and other containers. It is gracefully clothed in lovely, soft looking fern-like green leaves providing outstanding texture in the landscape. A low-maintenance evergreen that is drought tolerant when established and the deer turn their nose up to it.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide at its base, the Soft Serve False Cypress is ideal for use as an eye-catching specimen in smaller garden spaces and home foundation plantings or in groupings or privacy screes plantings where space allows. Use two to frame an entrance or the corners of homes and other structures. Its more compact size makes Soft Serve an excellent choice as a solo or combined with other plants in containers and is the [perfect outdoor Christmas tree! A fine addition to conifer gardens, rock gardens, formal gardens and Asian or Zen gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 5 feet apart for solid hedge (best in staggered pattern); 10 feet or more apart for space between plants.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b 

Shrub Type: Coniferous Evergreen Tree

Height at Maturity: 8-10'

Width at Maturity: 5-6' at base

Spacing:  5' for solid hedge; 10'+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Pyramidal

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: None

Flower Size:  NA

Flowering Period: NA

Flower Type: NA

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color: Green with Silver undersides

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: Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer- Disease, Drought (when established), Insect, Rabbit