As a privacy hedge, it creates a privacy screen in a shorter period of time than most other living privacy screens. In the United States, as in England, the Leyland cypress is popular for use as an ornamental, for privacy hedges, and as a wind break. It has been used to make flamenco guitars because it gives a very bright and clear sound while remaining inexpensive. It works well with hand and machine tools, holds glue well, and takes a good finish. The wood has a pale yellow-brown color and a fine, even texture. It is an attractive wood suitable for furniture, interior paneling, bed frames, and cedar chests. It is also used for house framing and roof trusses. Outdoor use lumber should be treated with appropriate preservative. There, heartwood is useful in making boats, wood joints, roofing shingles, and outdoor lumber that does not touch the ground. New Zealand and Australia has had more experience using Leyland cypress trees for building materials than most countries.
Salable trees are produced in four years. It drops few needles and can remain fresh through the Christmas season. The National Christmas Tree Association says the Leyland cypress is the most popular Christmas tree in the Southeastern United States. This is attributed to its rapid growth, its conical form, its dense, soft foliage that requires little trimming, and its lack of tree sap and pollen to which some people are allergic. The seeds ripen in the second year, and they are usually infertile.
The fruit is a cone having 8 scales which is round, brown, and ½ to 3/4 inches in diameter. Female flowers are slightly larger, round, and yellow-green. Just touching a limb in the spring stirs up a cloud of pollen. Male flowers are 1/8-inch reddish brown terminal cones. They are green to bluish-green, and arranged in flat sprays. Flowers are not showy. It later develops gray, weathered strips. Leaves are evergreen and scale-like, and 1/16 to 1/8 inches long. Bark on the trunk is reddish brown and scaly when young. Roots are relatively shallow, and they may disrupt nearby sidewalks and driveways. The damaged branches pictured are due to a 10 inch snow fall one month prior. The thick branches also collect snow, and this often damages branches. The wind it catches also stresses the tree’s shallow roots to possibly uproot and topple the tree in wet weather. Branching is thick, catching wind as an effective windbreak. Branches reach upward, with flattened branchlets. An older tree will lose bottom branches, which makes it less effective as a privacy barrier. A 50-foot tall tree has a base that can spread 25 feet. The tree has a pyramidal to oblong form with a broad base that extends to the ground. Even in poor soil, it can grow 3 to 4 feet per year and reach heights of 60 to 70 feet.
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The Leland cypress tree prefers full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. Since Leyland cypress cuttings first appeared in California in 1941, the tree has become one of the most popular and useful Christmas and landscape trees in the United States. Few hybrids of these trees are fertile, and nearly all the Leyland cypresses we encounter today are the result of cuttings from infertile trees. In the wild, these parent trees had been growing over 400 miles apart and had no chance to hybridize. In that year, on an estate in England, Monterey cypress trees from California hybridized with Nootka cypress trees from Alaska. The Leyland cypress tree, Cupressus x leylandii, did not exist before 1888. Successful plantings of Leyland cypress trees are usually the result of much research and careful thought. Where trees are not suitable, they may quickly overpower an area and/or prove to be high maintenance. These trees are appreciated for their function and enjoyed for their beauty when characteristics suit intended purposes. They are very popular for use as privacy hedges, ornamentals, and Christmas trees. Leyland cypress trees can be seen wherever you go across the Southeastern United States.
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