Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Barry's Silver'

• common names: lawson's false cypress
• height: slow growing, eventually reaching a mature height of six feet
• Light requirements: full sun; afternoon shade or filtered light is better where summers are especially hot
• Soil requirements: average garden soil
• Water requirments: average; water it regularly its first year or two
• Growth habit: branching and bushy
• How to propagate: cuttings or layering
• Leaf type: evergreen needles, with the new growth being silvery
• Ways to use it such: it is long lived and makes a handsome evergreen focal point in the landscape both summer and winter; also grows well in a pot for a patio, or two in pots placed on either side of an entranceway to a house
• Special characteristics: the youngest growth is lighter colored in silver, contrasting with the older, green foliage
• Other points of interests: does not grow very large and can easily be pruned yearly to keep it the same size indefinitely