Japanese Cedar 'Radicans' (Cryptomeria japonica 'Radicans') gives you a graceful, narrow evergreen conifer with soft, awl-like foliage that reads blue-green through the growing season and can take on bronzy tones in cold weather. You can use it as a specimen or as living architecture in screens, hedges, and privacy plantings where you want strong year-round structure without a bulky footprint.

Plan for a mature height around 30-40 feet, with a typical spread around 15-20 feet. Give your plant enough room to develop its natural pyramidal outline, and space multiple plants with future width in mind if you are building a screen. Choose a site with full sun to part shade; it will be densest with more sun, while light shade is often acceptable, especially where afternoons are hot.

For best results, plant in moist, well-drained soil and keep the root zone evenly watered while the plant is establishing. A generous mulch ring helps conserve moisture and moderates temperature swings, but keep mulch a few inches back from the trunk. Once established, routine care is simple: remove dead or damaged branches as needed and do any shaping lightly, since heavy shearing can reduce the natural texture. Provide some protection from drying winter winds in exposed sites, and avoid poorly drained, waterlogged soils to support long-term vigor.

Specifications

• Cold hardiness zone: 5-9 (-20 degrees F) - Contact your local extension to confirm hardiness if you are in a fringe zone (we cannot guarantee hardiness in fringe zones)
• Light: Full sun   Part sun
• Mature height: 360-480"
• Spread: 180-240"
• Evergreen: Yes

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