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Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Ivan's Column'
Also called blue feathers hinoki falsecypress, ivan's column and blue hinoki cypress
Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress
Plant it in full sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 4–8. Expect it to reach about 4 ft tall and 3 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 10 years (checked).
Pets
- Not yet checked for pets.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
No toxicity note is on file for Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress
Plant Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. In zone 6, the middle of its hardy zones 4 to 8, that is March to May, or August on the fall side.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 6, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 6 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress get?
4 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult3 ftwideSee Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Space Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress about 3 ft apart, center to center, so each plant has room to reach its full width.
Add Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress' height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, years to mature size, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 7 published sources on October 10, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources. Bloom was checked as well: Blue Feathers Hinoki Cypress bears no flowers, so there is no bloom window for a source to carry.
- NC State ExtensionChamaecyparis obtusa, the SPECIES pageheight, hardiness zones, sun, water, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity
- Plant Addictsthe queue's storeheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- Chicago Botanic GardenPlant Finderhardiness zones, sun, water, trait tags, soil and pests
- plants.westonnurseries.comNetPS Plant Finder entry 11534 (read on Weston Nurseries' host)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water and soil
- conifersociety.orgAmerican Conifer Society Conifer Database (the 'Ivan's Column' entry)height, spread, years to mature size and trait tags
- Plant Delights Nurseryarchive page, item 1529height, hardiness zones and sun
- dawesarb.arboretumexplorer.orgThe Dawes Arboretum (Arboretum Explorer)hardiness zones
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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