Chamaecyparis - Cryptomeria

The most popular of the squarrosa forms we offer, it makes a wonderful bonsai with a bit of shearing, calipering up quickly to a head of soft fine textured blue foliage. We offer the juvenile form of intermedia which is also known as Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Squarrosa pygmaea. There is also a widely grown reversion with whip-like branches that are tufted with compressed juvenile foliage.

Resembles ‘Minima’, but has a finer textured foliage. Very winter hardy, one of the best small cultivars for troughs, forms a cushion wider than high, extremely slow growing.

A dense round topped soft juvenile mound that invites a gentle caress, foliage is bluish gray in summer turning an exceptional plum purple in winter. An indestructible plant, we have had this out in an exposed sandy boulder garden in full sun that is infested with rabbits who prune it hard each winter. Despite this, it thrives and looks fantastic.

A densely upright conical plant with light green nodding new growth that ages to a very deep green. Buchholz considers it one of the best dwarf cultivars.

A dwarf cristate form it looks like a broom of cristata but finer textured, this originated in Ireland around 1966.