It has done well here, just enough sunlight and water. He was looking healthy and full. However, I like it when it looks scrawny and thinned out, more like a big Bonsai.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Pom Pom Reborn
I trimmed back the Boulevard Cypress Oriental Pompon (Chamaecyparis pisifera "Cyano-virdis') today. First purchased in 2014 and placed at the far end of the stroll garden, it has lived near the back gate almost five years.
Once trimmed, it now looks more interesting. I don't want him to be a full shrub, so this will have to continue as a yearly trimming.
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Hi, your Boulevard Cypress thinned out looks great. I have a pyramid shaped Boulevard Cypress that is about 20 years old. I want to thin it out and possibly make 3 pompoms. Not sure how to go about that. Taking suggestions!! It has two main trunks and is planted in the ground.
ReplyDeleteThanks. First, make sure you are willing to see it possible fail as an experiment - over trimming too much might kill it. My plant was originally purchased from a dying discard pile, so I was willing to experiment. I even moved it once after it sat in the wrong soil location for a couple years. Keeping more than three branches is probably a good idea. This one used to have even more smaller ones, but every winter a couple just die off. It always looks awful in the spring, and I have to prune it and clean out the dead brown remnants, usually in late June, early July. It takes me 3-4 hours. I have to work with this plant twice a summer. I wish I had more advice, but I really don't know what I'm doing - I have just been lucky. Its no longer a pom-pom, but its also not a full shrub either. That is what I like about it. Best of luck.
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