At the time I planted my Leyland cypresses (cupressocyparis leylandii)
which is the child of Monterey cypress (cupressus macrocarpa) and
Nootaka false cypress AKA Alaskan yellow cedar (chamecyparis
nootkatensis) the horticultural books RAVED about this hybrid.

Unfortunately, I planted them too close to other grown trees and they
ended up spindly. My bad.

What is your experience with the Leyland cypress? Pests and diseases
you've encountered? Growth rate? Overall appearance? Tolerance to
drought and cold temperature?

Thanks,
Jack

Used properly, a great tree. Vastly overplanted, often planted in
inappropriate settings, they have to my mind 'vanished' visually in the
landscape because of their extraordinary overuse. There are some concerns
that the rootball is overwhelmed by the rapid growth and thus these trees
may topple in heavy winds and snow/ice, although I've never seen it occur.
An excellent altrnative is Arborvitae 'Green Giant'.

Dave

"BroJack" wrote in message
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At the time I planted my Leyland cypresses (cupressocyparis leylandii)
which is the child of Monterey cypress (cupressus macrocarpa) and
Nootaka false cypress AKA Alaskan yellow cedar (chamecyparis
nootkatensis) the horticultural books RAVED about this hybrid.

Unfortunately, I planted them too close to other grown trees and they
ended up spindly. My bad.

What is your experience with the Leyland cypress? Pests and diseases
you've encountered? Growth rate? Overall appearance? Tolerance to
drought and cold temperature?

Thanks,
Jack

Overused and too often misused!!! It's become the amateur's special.

"BroJack" wrote in message
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At the time I planted my Leyland cypresses (cupressocyparis leylandii)
which is the child of Monterey cypress (cupressus macrocarpa) and
Nootaka false cypress AKA Alaskan yellow cedar (chamecyparis
nootkatensis) the horticultural books RAVED about this hybrid.

Unfortunately, I planted them too close to other grown trees and they
ended up spindly. My bad.

What is your experience with the Leyland cypress? Pests and diseases
you've encountered? Growth rate? Overall appearance? Tolerance to
drought and cold temperature?

Thanks,
Jack

"Berob" wrote in message . com...
Overused and too often misused!!! It's become the amateur's special.

"BroJack" wrote in message
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At the time I planted my Leyland cypresses (cupressocyparis leylandii)
which is the child of Monterey cypress (cupressus macrocarpa) and
Nootaka false cypress AKA Alaskan yellow cedar (chamecyparis
nootkatensis) the horticultural books RAVED about this hybrid.

Unfortunately, I planted them too close to other grown trees and they
ended up spindly. My bad.

What is your experience with the Leyland cypress? Pests and diseases
you've encountered? Growth rate? Overall appearance? Tolerance to
drought and cold temperature?

When grown as a hedge, causes neighbourly feuds in Britain! Growth
rate here in good soil is about 3 feet a year; no British pest or
disease seems to come near it. I have a few as freestanding specimens,
because I was in a hurry for some big conifers not because I think
they're special, and one of them is ruined by being too close to a
European ash on its south side: it's grown all on the northern side.
It stays incurably bare if you cut it back into old wood.

It also has a tendency to form an extra leader if it isn't staked
perfectly upright on planting, so you lose the perfect cone shape.
There's a hundred+ year-old one near us which my children used to sit
in, as it has a branch five feet up nearly as thick as the trunk and
forming an upside-down "h".

Can't advise about the effects of weather, as our climate is so
different; it certainly doesn't mind what we'd call droughts and
freeze-ups.

Mike.

Berob wrote:

Overused and too often misused!!! It's become the amateur's special.

*Excellent* revenge planting, especially when warm, wet weather hits.

A year's drought and cold didn't hurt mine, judging by the explosion of
new growth.


"BroJack" wrote in message
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At the time I planted my Leyland cypresses (cupressocyparis leylandii)
which is the child of Monterey cypress (cupressus macrocarpa) and
Nootaka false cypress AKA Alaskan yellow cedar (chamecyparis
nootkatensis) the horticultural books RAVED about this hybrid.

Unfortunately, I planted them too close to other grown trees and they
ended up spindly. My bad.

What is your experience with the Leyland cypress? Pests and diseases
you've encountered? Growth rate? Overall appearance? Tolerance to
drought and cold temperature?

Thanks,
Jack