24” Cypress Blue

Adopting and caring for Cypress Blue

Adopting: The joy of adding a healthy, colourful, well-grown Cypress sapling to a plant collection is a feeling only a plant parent can understand. At eplants, we bring you display-ready Cypress with high-quality growth, compact shape and well-formed leaves.

Locating: Cypress are sun lovers and do well outdoors, in the open sunlight. If you live in an apartment it’s best to give them a place with a lot of bright, direct light. They do not do well in low light conditions. If your spaces have limited light, it might be advisable to grow other plants, rather than bring a Cypress home.

Potting: Since these plants are natives of the tropics they need porous, well-drained soils. They do well in a 30:30:30:10 mix of coco-peat, compost, coarse sand and Perlite

Watering: A Cypress need to be watered daily. If possible, add to the humidity by spraying water on its leaves and also wash off any grime or dust that could have settled on its pretty leaves.

Fertilising: If your potting mix is right, these plants will not require too much fertiliser. However, nourishing them with an organic liquid fertiliser two or three times a year will help them do well. If you are using a chemical mix, ensure that they don’t touch the stalk or its leaves. This could damage the plant.

Cypress are tough, hard to kill plants if they are grown in spaces with good light. Even though they are natives of temperate zones, they can be seen doing well in most parts of India, hence should be the ideal foliage plant to grow in your garden too.

Did you know

Did you know? Cypress trees are known to live up to a 1000 years