Featured Tree

Arizona Cypress: The Southern Evergreen

Discover the Arizona cypress, a drought-tolerant Southern evergreen prized for its silvery blue-green foliage, fast growth, and use as a windbreak and living Christmas tree.

November 17, 2015

Close-up of Arizona cypress foliage showing scaly, blue-green sprays studded with small round, woody seed cones.

Tolerant of hot and dry conditions, the Arizona Cypress tree is an excellent tree for its native habitat, the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

It makes a good windbreak, and it is also widely used for soil erosion planting. It is grown as a Christmas tree and used in the landscape as an ornamental.

Here are a few things to note if you’re considering adding an Arizona cypress to your yard.

A full, conical Arizona cypress tree with dense silvery blue-green foliage stands against a clear deep-blue sky.

Environmental Conditions

The Arizona Cypress grows in acidic, alkaline, drought tolerant, loamy, sandy and well drained soils (hardiness zones 7-9).
Medium growing tree, growing one to two feet a year and reaching 40-50 feet high at maturity.
Does best in full sun.