{"id":175,"date":"2010-05-07T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/05\/07\/alternatives-to-italian-cypress\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:59:01","slug":"alternatives-to-italian-cypress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/05\/07\/alternatives-to-italian-cypress\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Italian Cypress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'Sky Pencil' Holly at Chanticleer Gardens in Wayne, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

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Those of us who live north of Atlanta, GA (USDA zone 7-b) can not enjoy Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens<\/em>), which are not hardy in most of the Southern Appalachian region (zone 6-a to 7-a). If you are designing a Mediterranean look in your garden, choose among select cultivars of these columnar evergreen shrubs:
\nJapanese holly (Ilex crenata) <\/em>‘Sky Pencil’<\/p>\n

Upright boxwood (Buxus sempervirens<\/em>) ‘Dee Runk’ and ‘Pyramidalis’<\/p>\n

Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana<\/em>) ‘Taylor’, ‘Brodie’, ‘Blue Arrow’, ‘Idyllwild’<\/p>\n

Eastern arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis<\/em>) ‘Techny’, ‘Pyramidalis’<\/p>\n

Common juniper (Juniperus communis<\/em>) ‘Pencil Point’<\/p>\n

Alaskan cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis<\/em>) ‘Green Arrow’, ‘Van den Akker’<\/p>\n

Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa<\/em> ‘Vokel’s Upright’)<\/div>\n
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Arizona cypress (Cupressus glabra<\/em>) ‘Limelight’, ‘Silver Smoke’<\/div>\n
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Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum<\/em>) ‘Skyrocket’, ‘Moonglow’ — needle foliage breaks down over time in warm 6-b to 7-a summers. Better in zone 6-a and further north.<\/div>\n
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\u2018Upright Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergi<\/em>) ‘Helmond Pillar’ \u2013 deciduous<\/div>\n
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Likely, you may be challenged by a lack of availability of several of these fabulous conifers at local garden centers. Often, an internet source becomes your best option for purchasing one or more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Those of us who live north of Atlanta, GA (USDA zone 7-b) can not enjoy Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), which are not hardy in most of the Southern Appalachian region (zone 6-a to 7-a). If you are designing a Mediterranean look in your garden, choose among select cultivars of these columnar evergreen shrubs: Japanese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[868,686,639,630,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}