Euan, please show us some pics now, I also can't wait for a later moment ;0) Josh, you're a good student, sugi means Cryptomeria in the Japanses language indeed ;0) Wolfgang, you're the Cryptomeria specialist here. Are you familiar with a witches'broom of the 'Jindai'? This comming Autumn I have a few plants availlable for you!

After getting a cryptomeria to add to a large pot ,'Spirilater Falcata', I found another one to plant in the ground, 'Cristata'-it will be in a semi-protected southern corner, near a wooden privacy fence-I'm going to move a quince that has not done well, pot up for the winter all the elephant ears that are doing extremely well, & move a banana. The 'Cristata' is 6', very narrow, w/ lots of new growth-it's beautiful...I'm going to be working this in w/ my 'tropicalesque' plantings across the walkway-this is my best southern spot where I have bananas (too big, will move), figs (also too vigorous this year, will probably move), windmill palms (being shaded out by other tropicals) & a few oddballs-jujube, sabal texensis, cordyline, hedychium. agave, setcresea,mandevilla.... Are there any of these plants that would not look odd near a cryptomeria? Right now, the existing planting that I will clear out has elephant ears (3), sabal texensis, dwarf Cavendish banana, lantana,& plectranthus, w/ a passiflora covering the fence....

Botann's pic of the 2 Juvenile Cryptomeria forms aren't the cultivars 'Elegans' and 'Elegan's Viridis', these are 'Elegans' and 'Elegans Aurea' for sure. It's not acceptable for me that 'Elegans Aurea' will be for sale in the U.S. as 'Elegans Viridis, they're totaly differend. I can tell this because the pic is taken in Winter (red brown winter colour of 'Elegans') The Winter colour of 'Elegans Aurea' is a yellow green while the Summer colour of this cultivar is a grass green colour just like the 'Elegans' will have all year round...

I'm curious - what's the tallest Sekkan Sugi anyone has ever seen? (not using '', because this just means yellow cedar in Japanese, apparently) I'm guessing botann's was rather large but webshots has gone haywire. NCSU has one that's 36', can't be that old since JC brought all that kind of stuff in around the late 70s-mid 80s. This page amusingly says 10' for mature height, while showing an obviously contradictory picture: Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/469 This post was edited by davidrt28 on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 21:44