Boulevard project

Hi all, I'd like to share some pictures of my Chamaecyparis pisifera boulevard project. It needs a lot of further foliage development but here it is so far;

I really like where this is going, it's a very good way take advantage of the way this species grows...giving me some ideas for a couple that I have.

Can you tell us the overall height?

Chris

Hi there, it's about four feet. The best I've ever seen is one by Simon Temblett. Surely a web search would find it.

Filling in nicely. And no more zip-ties!! Well done and thanks for sharing.

I like it . . . BUT I wonder how long that deadwood will stay whole. I know how long that would (not) be in nature.

Bloody marvelous. Took my breath away for a bit.Congratulations on that tree.!!!!!!

Hi, thankyou for your comments. I hope I can keep it alive long enough to develop smaller clouds.

Just an update on my chamaecyparis

It's coming nice. Few years ago I started train Boulevard also but tree wasn't respond in pot well so I put it in open ground. Maybe one day I'll try again. Thanks for sharing John

I like it a lot.

But why not invest in a 2x3 metres piece of black fabric as a backdrop so we can see it more clearly? I've just cut off two or three dozen bamboo canes invading the "jungle" (my backgarden), pity you live so far away  

A very nice, very interesting project.

I repotted my Boulevard today. Some better soil and a new front ;

wow !!!
foliage management difficult with these ?
(i.e. backbudding almost non-existent ?)

No backbudding but plenty of new growth on younger stems. They get so dense they can get die back inside the foliage clouds. Cascading the branches so that the clouds merge gives the impression of short branches. They're thirsty trees. The growth pattern can be useful to give the impression of most mature coniferous trees, pine, Juniper cypress etc.