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Lawson Cypress 'Royal Gold' Conifer Tree | 30cm tall 🇬🇧 UK Grown

Royal Gold is one of the goldest, most yellow Chamaecyparis cultivars around. A slow-growing, compact evergreen conifer with a columnar shape. Its evergreen foliage blends vibrant gold and green, tipped in gold throughout the year, offering consistent texture and colour.

‘Royal Gold’ larger growing cultivar boasts radiant golden leaves in a conical form. It’s branches spread out, revealing scaly, sprayed foliage. Preferring lower humidity and cooler climates, C. lawsoniana, also known as Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, is a slender, coniferous tree. Its branches sprawl out to display scaly, sprayed foliage. Female cones feature a wrinkled, reddish-brown hue, occasionally with a glaucous tint. Male cones, on the other hand, exhibit a deep bluish-black in their bud phase.

Size
The plant has an upright, columnar habit, making it suitable for narrow spaces or as a focal point in the garden

Foliage
The foliage is primarily green, but the tips of the branches have a distinctive creamy white or light-yellow colouration, especially during spring and early summer. This contrast provides an appealing visual texture and is especially striking when placed alongside plants with darker foliage.

Growth Habit
It has a dense and bushy growth habit, making it ideal for providing structure and form in gardens, especially in rock gardens, borders, or as part of mixed plantings.

Care and Requirements
Like other Chamaecyparis lawsoniana varieties, ‘Royal Gold’ prefers well-drained soil and can tolerate both full sun and partial shade. It’s important to protect it from harsh winds and excessively wet conditions, as this can damage the plant or lead to fungal issues. Also try to avoid very exposed positions.

Pest and Diseases
While generally robust, it can be susceptible to certain pests and diseases, especially when stressed. It’s essential to watch out for cypress aphids and to monitor for symptoms of diseases like cypress canker.

Soil
Moist but well-drained (will tolerate most soil types)

Hardiness
Fully hardy down to -15C

Pruning
Best pruned in late winter or early spring. First, remove dead/diseased branches. They’re sensitive to heavy pruning and won’t regenerate from old wood so avoid heavy cutting. Maintain natural shape with minimal cuts. Focus on thinning for airflow. Use sharp, sanitised tools to avoid spreading disease.

Ultimate height
2.5–4 metres

Time to ultimate height
10–20 years

Ultimate spread
0.5–1 metres

🇬🇧 UK Grown in Lancashire. Approx 20-30cm in a 9cm pot.

About Us

Yarrow Gardens is a small family business based in Euxton, West Lancashire. We grow most of our own stock here on our nursery. We have young saplings, year old saplings through to much larger and older specimens for sale. Trees are seeds are available all year round for delivery and collection from our nursery.

We are DEFRA registered and our nursery is regularly inspected to confirm compliance with all current plant and plant health regulations.

We are actively working towards the Grown in Britain certification along with the Plant Healthy certification.

Plant Passport Registration Number: GB140010

Yarrow Gardens Limited. Registered in the United Kingdom: 13411784

Postage

For most of our deliveries we use Royal Mail 2nd Class, Evri or UPS for slightly larger orders. We ask you to allow 4-5 working days for the items to arrive, perhaps slightly longer during peak times. Our postage is included in the price you pay. "Free delivery" isn't really free - it has a cost to us as the seller, so we are trusting couriers with your orders.

We dispatch Monday - Thursday. We don't dispatch on Friday or weekends to prevent your live plants potentially being stuck in a warehouse all weekend.

We try make all our packaging compostable at home, the tape, the box and the labels. Occasionally we'll use some non-compostable tape or bags to secure your items. We post all our trees safely and securely in a cardboard box, please note sometimes we'll reuse boxes or material to save our planet.

Please be aware that any postal service can be subject to unforeseen delays beyond our control, we are also bound by the postal service guidelines for declaring an item lost which ranges from 15-60 days depending the courier service we use. If your item is delayed, please contact us through eBay, so we can help you. Please contact us before leaving any feedback as will always resolve the issue for you.

Collection

Collection from Euxton is available on prior arrangement.

Please contact us if you have any questions.