Golden Mop Cypress

Golden Evergreen Color
Soft Threadlike Texture
Compact Mounded Form

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Golden Mop Cypress

Sunlight
Can grow in a range from full sun to partial shade. They need at least six hours of direct, unfiltered sunlight per day.
Watering
Regular watering schedule for the first six months. Once established, rainwater should be sufficient.
Fertilizing
Should not need any extra fertilizer unless your entire lawn and garden have problems and needs regular fertilizing.

Golden Mop Cypress

Golden Mop Cypress is a slow-growing evergreen shrub with bright yellow-gold, threadlike foliage that drapes in a soft mounded form. Its vivid color, fine texture, and compact habit make it excellent for foundations, rock gardens, borders, low hedges, and year-round accent plantings.

Why choose Golden Mop Cypress?

Choose Golden Mop Cypress for brilliant evergreen color and soft landscape texture in a manageable size. Its mop-like, pendulous foliage adds movement and contrast beside broadleaf shrubs, perennials, stonework, and dark evergreens. This compact false cypress is especially useful where year-round color is needed without a tall screening plant. It grows slowly, requires little routine pruning, and brings a polished golden accent to entry gardens, patio edges, and smaller landscape beds.

Key Characteristics

Botanical Name: Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Golden Mop’
Common Name: Golden Mop Cypress
Plant Type: Evergreen shrub
Growth Habit: Slow-growing, mounded, rounded conifer with threadlike, pendulous foliage

Golden Mop Cypress Additional Information

Golden Mop Cypress is prized for its golden yellow to yellow-green evergreen foliage, which keeps the garden colorful through winter as well as the growing season. The fine, threadlike sprays naturally drape outward, giving the plant its soft, mop-like appearance. It does not produce showy flowers, but its foliage provides year-round ornamental value and strong contrast in mixed plantings.

This compact Sawara false cypress is commonly used as a specimen, low hedge, foundation accent, rock garden plant, or bright contrast shrub in evergreen borders. It grows slowly and often remains smaller for many years, though mature plants may gradually reach several feet tall and wide depending on site conditions. Minimal pruning is usually needed. Light shaping can be done to maintain form, but heavy cutting into older bare wood should be avoided because new growth may not fill in well from those areas.

Planting & Care

1. Planting: Plant Golden Mop Cypress in full sun to partial shade with moist, well-drained soil. Full sun usually produces the brightest golden foliage, while partial shade can be helpful in hot or exposed sites.

2. Watering: Keep soil evenly moist during the first growing season while roots establish. Once established, water during extended dry periods, especially in sunny sites, containers, or fast-draining soils.

3. Mulching: Apply a 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch around the root zone, keeping it slightly away from the main stems. Mulch helps conserve moisture and keeps soil temperatures more consistent.

4. Pruning: Prune lightly only as needed to shape stray growth. Maintain its natural mounded habit and avoid cutting deeply into old interior wood, since this evergreen is slow to regrow from bare stems.

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FAQs

How big does Golden Mop Cypress get?
Golden Mop Cypress is slow growing and often stays compact for many years. In time, it may reach about 3 to 5 feet tall and wide depending on growing conditions and pruning.
Where should I plant Golden Mop Cypress?
Plant it in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soil. It works well in foundation beds, rock gardens, mixed borders, entry plantings, low hedges, and containers.
Does Golden Mop Cypress need pruning?
It needs very little pruning. Lightly trim stray tips to maintain shape, but avoid hard pruning into older bare wood because it may not regrow densely from those areas.

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Lush Foliage
Full Sun
Plant Spacing

Mature Height	Large: Up to 6 ft
Mature Spread	0-5 ft
Growth Rate	Slow
Botanical Name	Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop'
Bloom Time	Non Flowering
Deer Resistant	Usually
Flower Color	Non Flowering
Family	Cupressaceae
Hardiness Zones	4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Light Needs	Full Sun, Partial Sun
Maintenance	Low
Size	#3 Container

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Growing Zones 4-8 Outdoors

(Hardy down to -30)

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