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What Tree

  • 22-09-2013 05:51PM
    #1
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me what kind of tree this is?

    Photo taken in Spain.

    Do they grow naturally this way?


Comments

  • #2
    Sweet_pea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Sweet_pea


    It's an Italian cypress and yes that is their growth habit.


  • #3
    The Garden Shop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭The Garden Shop


    We have an Irish Tree that does something similar Juniperus Communis Hibernica
    Its very slow to grow but has the same columnar habit as the Italian cypress


  • #4
    The Garden Shop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭The Garden Shop


    By 'we' i mean 'Ireland'


  • #5
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭ei9go


    Thanks for the replies.

    I was looking for something for screening that did'nt grow too wide and saw these in Spain recently.


  • #6
    CBYR1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭CBYR1983


    Smaragd also has a very narrow columnar shape and can grow to a good height. Just plant it and leave it alone!


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  • #7
    mountainy man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    I have one of these cypress sempervirens in the garden, its doing fine very slow growing. bought it on a whim in homebase as it was reduced in 2010, only complaint about it is that it's difficult to keep it growing straight in my windy garden. seems completely hardy as was fine through those artic winter we had


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