Lawson’s Cypress Seeds
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Price range: £2.12 through £3.20
Lawson’s Cypress – Chamaecyparis lawsoniana seeds. This graceful evergreen is often overlooked and mistaken for Leyland cypress, but it has softer, flattened foliage sprays and a scent all its own. Because they’re species seeds, every seedling varies slightly in colour and habit.
- ✓ These are the same high-quality seeds we use in our own nursery to grow healthy, thriving trees. Follow our germination guide for best results.
- ✓ SPECIES SEED: Lawson's Cypress - Chamaecyparis lawsoniana seeds, also known as Port Orford Cedar, in packs of 10 to 100
- ✓ NOT LEYLANDII: An often overlooked conifer with soft, flattened foliage sprays, distinct from the familiar Leyland cypress
- ✓ TESTED SEED: Lot tested at 77% germination; cold stratify for 60 days in the fridge after a 24 hour soak for best results
- ✓ VERSATILE: Grow on as a clipped hedge, privacy screen, specimen tree or bonsai; seedlings vary naturally in colour and habit
- ✓ Quality UK stock from Yarrow Gardens - DEFRA Registered Supplier
Lawson’s Cypress – Chamaecyparis lawsoniana often gets overlooked, and people regularly mix it up with its far more familiar relative, Leyland cypress – Cupressus × leylandii. The two are quite different trees. Lawson’s has soft, flattened sprays of foliage with a faint resinous, parsley-like scent when crushed, and fine pale markings on the undersides of the leaves. It’s native to a narrow coastal strip of Oregon and northern California, and the Lawson & Son nursery in Edinburgh brought it into cultivation in 1854.
Growing it from seed is a good way to get to know this conifer properly. These are species seeds, so each seedling turns out a little different: some greener, some bluer, some more upright. It’s very satisfying to watch the first tiny, feathery shoots fill out into a proper young tree, whether you want a hedge, a specimen tree or a bonsai.
Season of Interest
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Natural Germination:Sow the seed outdoors in autumn or early winter, in a prepared seed bed or in pots of gritty seed compost kept in a cold frame or a sheltered spot. Winter cold and damp do the stratifying for you. Sow about 3mm deep, firm the compost gently over the seed, then cover with a thin mulch of fine grit to hold moisture in and stop the seed being washed out. Keep the compost evenly moist but never waterlogged through winter and into spring, and germination should follow as temperatures rise. Give the seedlings bright light without harsh midday sun, and shelter them from drying winds while they’re young.
Artificial Stratification:Pretreatment is recommended for reliable spring germination. Start by soaking the seed in water for 24 hours; scarification isn’t needed. Drain the seed, mix it with slightly damp vermiculite, sand or peat-free compost, and seal it in a labelled bag. Cold moist stratify in the fridge at about 1-5°C for 60 days, checking now and then that the mix hasn’t dried out or gone mouldy. Warm stratification isn’t required. After chilling, sow 3mm deep in free-draining seed compost, firm lightly, top with a thin layer of fine grit and keep evenly moist in good light at around 15-20°C until the seedlings appear.
Scarification
Soak in water for 24 hours
Cold Stratification
Cold stratify for 60 days
Germinate
Expect about 77% germinancy
Difficulty Level
Medium
Delivery
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With regret, we can no longer send items out to Northern Ireland. All live plants need a phytosanitary checks and DAERA must be notified. This process is simply too expensive at the moment.
Returns
In the rare instance that your item has been damaged during delivery or incorrectly shipped by us, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss the return and replacement of your item.
Once you have contacted us and we have confirmation that your parcel is on its way back to us we will be happy to issue a refund for the return postage.
| Delivery Class | Delivery Cost | |
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| Royal Mail Letter - Royal Mail Tracked | £3.25 (Flat) | |
| Royal Mail Letter - Royal Mail Second Class | £1.32 (Flat) | |
| Royal Mail Large Letter - Royal Mail Tracked | £3.25 (Flat) | This item |
| Royal Mail Large Letter - Royal Mail Second Class | £2.10 (Flat) | This item |
| Standard Items - Standard Courier (APC) | £10.74 (Flat) | |
| Standard Items - Standard Courier (Evri) | £5.99 (Flat) | |
| Medium Items - Standard Courier (APC) | £11.94 (Flat) | |
| Large Items - Pallet Courier | £114.00 (Flat) | |
| Large Items - Standard Courier (APC) | £25.14 (Flat) | |
| Pallet Courier - Pallet Courier | £114.00 (Flat) |
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