![]() BUT, these things can happen for other reasons -> that is why I asked if it is brittle if so it is about as good as dead. It will reach 6 feet in 10 years, eventually growing over 15 feet tall, and becoming 5 or more feet wide. it forms a slender column of soft foliage, in a rich green color, turning attractive reddish tones in cold winter weather. So, I see the reddishness/brownishness and yellowing on the outside of the fronds - the shaded interior looks to be a vibrant green, to me. The Slender Hinoki Cypress is a medium-sized evergreen bush, with branches to the ground, and a narrow habit. Japanese white pines are famous for this, but most alpine conifers do as well. There is another set of compounds, xynthophylls which divert photons from the PSII reaction center under the same conditions and give the foliage a yellow cast. This has been a bad year of losses for my garden. At that point I will see if I can help it to recover its form. In ten years it will be 6 to 8 feet tall, and it will gradually grow to a mature height of between 15 and 25 feet, depending on the location, climate, and soil conditions. The tree grows at a moderate pace, adding 6 or 8 inches a year. The foliage is feathery, and arranged in sprays which lay across each other, like waves on the sea. I only hope it lives through the coming year. The Slender Hinoki Cypress is a graceful and elegant upright small tree, with layering branches carrying soft foliage of an attractive mid-green color. Junipers often turn ruddy red in winter as does chamaecyparus 'Elegans'. Removing the dead and diseased part of the plant down to living parts seemed to be the only answer and my dwarf evergreen, the pride of my front garden, is now terribly deformed. This gives the foliage a ruddy reddish brown appearance similar to what I see in your pix. Quite often it is because of a red pigment, anthocyanin, that functions as a shade screen for the photsynthetic apparatus. You’ll get very small needles that are a deep green shade. ![]() It looks like a traditional pine tree compressed into a slender form. Though some websites list this variety as slow growing, in our gardens we've seen a moderate to fast growth rate. The branchlets on this tree arch very graceful to give it a stately look and feel. Slender Hinoki Cypress - 3 Gallon Pot (3-4') The Slender Hinoki Cypress is a stately evergreen with a tall and narrow pyramidal form covered in sprays of highly attractive deep green foliage with gracefully arching stem tips. Honoki's, like many other conifers' foliage tends to color when cold and in bright sun. Slender Hinoki Cypress You’ll get a very pyramidal form with this tree, and it has an open-branch design. ![]() If it isn't brittle, the 'discoloration' is likely normal and nothing to worry about - it will go away, come spring. ![]()
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