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Cypress

January 8, 2013

Categories: News

The Boulevard Cypress. The botanical name is Chamaecyparis pisifera (Sawara Cypress or Sawara Japanese: サワラ Sawara) and it is a species of false cypress, native to central and southern Japan, on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū. It is a slow-growing coniferous tree growing to 35–50 m tall with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter. The bark is red-brown, vertically fissured and with a stringy texture. The foliage is arranged in flat sprays; adult leaves are scale-like, 1.5–2 mm long, with pointed tips (unlike the blunt tips of the leaves of the related Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress), green above, green below with a white stomatal band at the base of each scale-leaf; they are arranged in opposite decussate pairs on the shoots. The juvenile leaves, found on young seedlings, are needle-like, 4–8 mm long, soft and glaucous bluish-green. The cones are globose, 4–8 mm diameter, with 6–10 scales arranged in opposite pairs, maturing in autumn about 7–8 months after pollination.

"Twisted bent trunks have the greatest beauty and character."

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" Sir Walter Scott wrote that nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden. It is our humble, simple, and enduring pleasure to give birth to many children of art that find their way into many gardens."

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Using time honored Japanese pruning techniques, Laura and Tom bend and manipulate to release the unique character concealed in each tree.

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Bentwood Tree Farm

For over twenty-five years, Bentwood Pines have found an unique place in West Coast gardens. Using time honored Japanese pruning techniques, Laura and Tom bend, twist and prune to release the unique character concealed in each tree.