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cypress-issue
Hi,
my aunt has a cypress in her garden and tells me that shurely was an chamaecyparis obtusa Boulevard. She wants to remove it, because it became too big, and wants exactly the same kind as a small one. It seems to me that something must be wrong: I cannot find any chamaecyparis obtusa Boulevard in the internet. Maybe it was called thus in the past but was renamed? Or does my aunt remember the name wrong? Thanks for help! yours TH |
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In message , Thomas Hoffmann
writes Hi, my aunt has a cypress in her garden and tells me that shurely was an chamaecyparis obtusa Boulevard. She wants to remove it, because it became too big, and wants exactly the same kind as a small one. It seems to me that something must be wrong: I cannot find any chamaecyparis obtusa Boulevard in the internet. Maybe it was called thus in the past but was renamed? Or does my aunt remember the name wrong? 'Boulevard' appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera cultivar. Nothing springs to mind as to why it should get labelled as obtusa, but the nursery trade has been known to get things wrong. See if the descriptions of pisifera 'Boulevard' match. Thanks for help! yours TH -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Am 28.04.2011 21:40, schrieb Stewart Robert Hinsley:
'Boulevard' appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera cultivar. Nothing springs to mind as to why it should get labelled as obtusa, but the nursery trade has been known to get things wrong. See if the descriptions of pisifera 'Boulevard' match. Thanks Steward pisifera 'Boulevard' is described as small and not very tall. The cypress of my aunt is about 5m=16 feet high. Could it be a pisifera boulevard anyway? TH |
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In message , Thomas Hoffmann
writes Am 28.04.2011 21:40, schrieb Stewart Robert Hinsley: 'Boulevard' appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera cultivar. Nothing springs to mind as to why it should get labelled as obtusa, but the nursery trade has been known to get things wrong. See if the descriptions of pisifera 'Boulevard' match. Thanks Steward pisifera 'Boulevard' is described as small and not very tall. The cypress of my aunt is about 5m=16 feet high. Could it be a pisifera boulevard anyway? TH I don't know for sure. But it is notorious that (at least some) dwarf conifers eventually become large - dwarf in respect to conifers means slow growing rather than small. The first hit in Google says 6-10 ft. Another says 3m (10ft) in 19 (suspiciously precise) years. Yet another says 1m in 10 years. Another says 20 ft (but has a confusion between the species in general and the cultivar, so I can't be sure which the figure applies to). The RHS gives an ultimate height of up to 8m (25ft). If your aunt had the plant for 20-30 years 16 feet sounds reasonable. http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=409 -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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cypress-issue
Thank you Steward,
helped a lot! TH |
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