Name: Green Whispers Bald Cypress (Taxodium Distichum) - 7 Gallon Pot (6-7')
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Green Whispers Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum ‘Green Whispers’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Tree

Height at Maturity: 30-50′, depending on soil moisture, shorter in drier soil

Width at Maturity: 20-30′, depending on soil moisture, not as wide in drier soil
Spacing: 15′ for privacy screens; 35 feet or more for space between trees

Growth Habit / Form: Upright Pyramidal

Growth Rate: Very Fast! 2’+ per year

Flower Color: Non-Flowering

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Fragrant Flowers: –

Foliage Color: Soft Bright Green throughout the warm seasons
Fall Foliage Color: Rusty Orange

Fragrant Foliage: No

Bark Color: Silvery-Gray, Brown

Sun Needs: Full Sun, Mostly Sun, Part Sun

Water Needs: Average, lower when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt – Fertile

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained to Wet; drought tolerant when established

Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Birds

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-20F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Moderate Drought (when established), Wet Soils

Description

Discovered by the folks at Shady Grove Plantation in South Carolina, ‘Green Whispers’ is a unique and spectacular Bald Cypress in that its fluffy, bird feather-like leaves retain their neon light green spring color throughout the entire warm season before turning to rusty-orange with the arrival of cooler temperatures in the fall. Otherwise, the Green Whisper has all the outstanding characteristics of a Bald Cypress. It will grow in wet soils, even standing water as it does in the Okefenokee Swamp, and will tolerate drought when established. It has a pyramidal form 30 to 50 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide and is very fast growing, adding 2 to 3 feet or more in height per year. Its mature size will be smaller in dry soils, taller in moist to wet soils. A very easy-to-grow and long-lived North American native tree that will add very beautiful and graceful form and outstanding texture and bright color to the landscape.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 30 to 50 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide, the Green Whispers Bald Cypress tree is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or in single or staggered rows to delineate a property line or line a driveway or street. Highly adaptable, it will thrive in wet to somewhat dry sites so is excellent for use in swampy areas or near lakes, streams, rivers or other bodies of water, and for the Xersicape (low water needs). Perfect for use as a shade tree and when planted on the west side of the home cooling costs will be reduced. A fine addition to native plant gardens, conifer gardens and wildlife gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 15 feet apart for screen plantings; 35 feet or more apart for space between trees, depending on soil moisture

Growing Preferences

Being a North American native tree, the Green Whispers Bald Cypress is highly adaptable and exceptionally easy to grow in a variety of soil types, including clay, and likes full sun to light shade. It thrives in both somewhat dry or wet soils, even standing water. It will appreciate some supplemental water during prolonged periods of drought. Maintenance is minimal to none. Pruning isn’t necessary, however selective pruning for shaping is tolerated or to remove lower branches to expose more trunk is okay. Avoid pruning in the spring when the tree is emerging from dormancy. Prune in late winter.

Do keep in mind that it is one of a few deciduous conifers, meaning its needles will drop in the fall and regrow in the spring. But its fibrous red bark provides interest during the winter and contrasts beautifully with the foliage during spring, summer and fall.

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