Hinoki False Cypress 'Fernspray Gold'

Hi there. I'm wondering if anyone has experience growing this in the shade in the pacific northwest. I am hoping it will do ok, just mayb...Read Moree not as golden of a color? Thanks a bunch.

Didn't have much if any brown after first winter in the ground. It was a mild winter and is in a protected site but most of my C. obtusa ...Read Morewill have some brown after winter. Gold color is nice but will turn green if not in enough sun. I have other varieties that hold their color better in part-shade but this is still a nice variety.

Planted late spring 2008 in southwest exposure, zone 8, full sun. Requires heavy mulch and watering during late summer to minnimize foli...Read Moreage frongs from browning. The chartruse and golden hues are electricfying. This specimen resembles the 'Tetragona Aurea' expect the limbs to the 'Fernspray Gold' weep and curly. Pictures taken Winter08.

A golden fern like Hinoki Cypress. Found at Duncan & Davies Nursery in New Zealand around 1975. Plant forms a tree like shrub with flat s...Read Moreprays of yellow foliage with white in near the middle. Orange winter foliage.