Other names: Mediterranean cypress 'Swane's Gold', Golden Italian cypress
ShootChecker™
STOP: Make sure you get the “Right Plant, Right Place.”
90% of plants die because they were the wrong plant choice. Shoot helps you to save valuable time and money to get the right plant choices for any garden.
'Swane's Golden' is a narrowly columnar, evergreen, coniferous shrub with dense sprays of scale-like, pale yellow to yellow-green leaves. Sphericial to ovoid, scaly, brown female cones ripen in autumn and persist on the shrub for years.
Plant in any moist, but well-drained soil. Can tolerate hot sunny sites, but protect from strong winds.
Suggested uses
Architectural, Coastal, Low Maintenance, Resistant to pollution
UK hardiness
H5
USDA zones
Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9
Sunset zone
8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
WUCOLS
North-Central Coastal = Unknown Central Valley = Unknown South Coastal = Unknown South Inland = Unknown High and Intermediate Desert = Unknown Low Desert = Unknown
An initial suggestion that comes to mind is the Cupressus sempervirens ‘Green Pencil’, which is very columnal: [LINK]https://https://www.shootgardening.com/plant/cupressus-sempervirens-green-pencil?referrer=%2Fplant%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcupressus+semperviren[/LINK].
A slightly smaller option is Cupressus sempervirens 'Totem Pole': [LINK] https://https://www.shootgardening.com/plant/cupressus-sempervirens-totem-pole?referrer=%2Fplant%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcupressus+semperviren[/LINK]
Hope these suggestions give you something to work with!
The photo shows Swane's Gold as being pyramidal rather than columnar. Which is it? How rapidly does it grow per annum? What is cost? I am looking for columnar conifers of mid-green colour to hide a brick wall 3m tall. I do not want pyramids; I do want pencil-shape. I need narrow width pencils as well since space between our windows and wall is only 4m