New Year's cypress: description, planting and care

Until recently, it was difficult to imagine that it was possible to grow a coniferous tree at home. Various types of dwarf plants have now been cultivated, ideally adapted for this. The decorative coniferous culture New Year's cypress is considered a real interior decoration. In addition, the smell of pine needles at home removes harmful bacteria and germs from the air.

In the natural environment, the New Year's cypress grows up to 70 cm. If you grow it at home, the plant height will not exceed 40 cm. This coniferous tree has an interesting conical shape. The trunk is standard for all representatives of the species - a scaly bark of brown or brown color.

A dwarf cypress variety tolerates cold and grows comfortably in warmth. Therefore, it can grow both at home and on the street.

Like other conifers, cypress develops at a slow pace. During the year, the stems grow only a few cm. Soft, thin needles appear on young plants, which, during the growth of the plant, become pointed at the ends with pale green leaves resembling scales. To keep the cypress compact in size, it is recommended to prune its roots in the spring.

In a pot, a New Year's cypress may not have enough land. It also reacts poorly to dry air. With the onset of warmth, a coniferous plant that has successfully overwintered in the room begins to turn yellow and even dry out. It can be planted in open ground, after waiting for the ground to thaw.

Any plant culture develops more successfully in the ground on the street, and not on an indoor windowsill.

Street cypress needs to be planted in the fall. He does not have to be taken back to the house, because he is able to overwinter under a layer of snow. To plant it, you will need a shovel and a small amount of fertilizer.

You can plant a tree anywhere where enough snow accumulates during the winter months. This can be the northern, southern and any other side, or a place in the flower bed where a large planting of perennial flowers, for example, peonies, grows. As you know, they are able to hold snow on themselves.

Dwarf cypress is completely not capricious to the composition of the soil. Due to its small roots, it will not be damaged by the nearby groundwater.

Transplanting a New Year's cypress from a flower pot into garden soil is a completely simple task. The tree is watered, removed from the pot, moved to a small hole in the soil, at the bottom of which 1 tbsp is poured. spoon of universal fertilizers. Before placing it in the hole, the top dressing must first be mixed with a small amount of earth.

It is very important to keep an earthy ball around the plant. Miniature cypress trees do not respond well to root injuries. Therefore, cypress trees are transferred to a new hole, and not transplanted. After the plant is not densely sprinkled with garden soil.

The transplanted tree should remain at its usual level relative to the surface of the earth.At the end of planting, it remains to pour water on the trunk circle.

In stores, cypress trees are sold in peat soil with increased moisture permeability. It lacks the necessary nutrients and dries up quickly. In such a substrate, a “New Year's” cypress tree is able to grow without wilting only until spring. Then it will have to be transplanted into a denser soil, saturated with micronutrients. This process goes like this:

• carefully remove the flower from the pot;
• carefully free the roots from some of the soil;
• rearrange the cypress into a new container, covering the free space with loam.

You have to take care of the flower in the same way as for the rest of indoor plants. In the spring, you need to feed it or transplant it into new soil, water it all year round, without waiting for the potting substrate to dry out. Indoor cypress is transplanted every two years.

You can grow a New Year's cypress on your own. Reproduction of this representative of conifers is possible in several ways.

• Seeds. This is the longest lasting way. The seeds are extracted from the cones. There are usually two seeds in one cone. They need to be sown in the fall, slightly deepening the seed into the previously prepared soil. It should be designed specifically for planting conifers. After that, the container is left in a cold place, waiting for stratification for a more successful outcome of the seed germination process. In the spring, the plant is transferred to a warm room and watered as needed.

• Cuttings. A good time for propagation by cuttings is in the spring. Cuttings are cut tops of the plant from the lateral shoots. They are immediately planted in fertile soil, spilled with water. After watering, it is carried out as the substrate dries up, the main thing is not to flood it.

• Layers. In the spring season, the lower shoots are slightly incised and bent to the ground, forming layering. A small pebble is placed where the incision is located, and so that the layering does not straighten, it is fixed with a bracket. The roots appear in the fall, and it is time to separate the layers from the mother's shoot and plant them in pots.

The street cypress tree has an attractive feature - tree care is minimized. In the middle lane, the street plant does not have to be watered at all - moderate rains will do it for you. Fertilizing is also not required.

The non-capricious dwarf ephedra is ideal for lazy summer residents and indoor plant lovers. Due to its slow development, it is content with minimal nutrition, hydration and attention. He is fully satisfied with the moisture and fertilizers that are brought under the neighboring plants growing in the garden.

But at home, a dwarf cypress must receive some care.

New Year's cypress is a southern culture, therefore it needs full natural lighting. If you leave the pot in the shade or create partial shade around, the ephedra will stop growth and development.

The best option would be to place it under diffused light, but not on the windowsill on the south side. Direct rays can burn the needles. The most favorable place for the location of the plant will be the east or west side of the house. It is also supposed to protect the home mini-cypress from chilly drafts.

In winter, a coniferous mini-copy of a cypress is placed in a cool place in the house. The ambient temperature should not exceed +15 degrees. Optimally - + 5-8 degrees. In the summer, it is advisable to keep the tree at a cool temperature. It is preferable that it does not exceed +20 grauss.

If the plant is hot in the room and its needles turn yellow, then it is necessary to irrigate it three times a day with cold, settled water.

In the country, watering the plants can be assigned to the rains. You need to water the indoor copy regularly, but in moderation, and in the winter, reduce the number of waterings. Stagnation of water in a pot with a plant is unacceptable in any case. Excess moisture is detrimental to the plant. But even worse for him is the drying out of the soil. Coniferous is watered exclusively with long-standing water.

The New Year's species of cypress is resistant to diseases and small pests. But if the tree begins to turn yellow, this is a signal that the soil is drying up. In this case, the plant urgently needs to be watered or to check if too much light falls on it from the sun.

Sometimes a scabbard and annoying spider mites settle on cypress trees, and sometimes rot appears on the roots. From settling with spider mites, the needles turn yellow and even fall off. This sign is a sure signal for immediate action to heal the plant.

To rid it of pests, you will need treatment with an acaricidal agent several times with a break a week. Suitable drug "Neoron", "Nissoran" or "Apollo".

Scabbards suck life-giving sap from the coniferous tree, which makes it dry and shed the needles. The plant can also be helped by treatment with Nuprid in several stages of spraying.

In rare cases, if the process of infection is too advanced, it is better to sacrifice the tree, dig it up and burn it. Indeed, because of it, all plants in the neighborhood can become infected with pests.

Stagnation of water can lead to the appearance of fungus and rotting of the roots.

If the disease is not detected in time, you can lose the tree. It is recommended to carefully dig up a cypress affected by a fungus, clean its roots from damp earth and cut off rotten areas. Rhizomes must be treated with a fungicidal agent in the form of spraying, and the tree must be planted in another place that is suitable for all agrotechnical requirements. If the entire root system is damaged, the cypress will have to say goodbye.

Coniferous trees began to appear more and more often on household plots. The spectacular decorative look of the New Year's cypress goes well with other plants.

With the help of miniature varieties of this coniferous culture, alpine slides are stylishly decorated. In single compositions, medium-sized cypress varieties look original.

The soft and fluffy needles of the evergreen dwarf conifer cannot be pricked. But you can enjoy the plant to its fullest and embody with its help on the site the most unusual solutions in landscape design.

Dwarf cypress trees are planted in rock gardens and combined with similar crops in mixborders. Thanks to the small universal bushes, any composition with cypress trees will look advantageous in the landscape.

Cypress care tips in the video below.