The blue false cypress is not only characterized by its rapid growth. It is robust, resistant to disease and will grow for many years in a favorable location. It is very easy to care for. How to care for the blue cypress.
How do you properly care for a blue cypress?
Caring for the blue cypress includes proper watering, fertilizing with compost and cypress fertilizer, covering the soil with mulch, cutting once or twice a year and transplanting if necessary. Robust and hardy, it rarely requires pest control or winter protection.
How do you water blue cypress trees correctly?
Older blue cypress trees only need additional water when it is so dry that the root ball dries out. The rest of the time they are adequately supplied by their branched root system.
Blue cypresses should be watered occasionally in the first few years, even in winter. The evergreen plants evaporate water even in cool temperatures. Therefore, water the conifers on frost-free days.
How much fertilizer do blue cypress trees need?
It has proven useful to fertilize the fast-growing plants with ripe compost in spring. In the first few years you can supply the blue cypresses with cypress fertilizer (€84.00 on Amazon) at intervals of four to eight weeks.
Cover the ground under the blue cypresses with a layer of mulch that you renew in spring and autumn. This ensures the supply of nutrients and prevents the soil from drying out too much.
Do you need to prune blue cypress trees?
Prune blue cypresses once or twice a year.
Can blue cypress trees be transplanted?
Transplanting is possible within the first three to four years. The best time for this is October or spring.
You should no longer move older plants because of their large root balls.
What diseases and pests can occur?
- Thuja leaf miner
- Thuja bark beetle
- Rare bark beetle
- Different types of mushrooms
Blue cypresses are robust. Diseases occur only rarely. It is usually a care error when the plant turns brown. But pest infestation can also be responsible.
Are the ornamental trees hardy?
Blue cypresses are hardy. As a rule, they do not need winter protection.
An exception are young plants that you only planted in autumn. You should protect them from severe frost in the first winter with mulch and fleece.
Blue cypresses in pots generally need winter protection because the earth freezes too quickly.
Tip
Blue cypresses are easy to propagate yourself. Either you tear – not cut – cuttings from the branches in the winter months or you sow the popular conifers.
