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Carmel Mission Cypress tree saplings - $20
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We live across the street from the mission, and the seeds blow into our yard on really windy days. We pluck the seedlings, pot them, water them, and fuss over them for about 12 months before putting them up for sale.
Each sapling is 10 inches or taller (above the soil level) and planted in a one-gallon fabric pot filled with Miracle Grow potting soil (“grows plants twice as fast”).
Best of all: Each sapling is priced far less than what you could buy them anywhere else. In fact, no one else even sells Carmel Mission Cypress tree saplings.
Highlights:
• Grows about 1 foot per year.
• No maintenance (tolerates dry conditions and no trimming required).
• Very hardy (high tolerance for wind, drought, salt air and poor soils).
• Makes an excellent windscreen.
• Handsome and conical when young; spreading and picturesque with age.
• Does well in most any coastal setting.
• Mature tree heights for this species vary from stunted 20-foot tall specimens in windy settings to high towers over 70-plus feet tall in less windy settings.
• The needles give off a deep, lemony aroma when crushed.
• Produces tiny, brilliant yellow male flowers at its foliage tips and clumps of female cones.
Ideal growing conditions:
• Prefers cool summers, and thrives in coastal conditions.
• Can be grown in interior locations, but best along the seashore and in other places that have at least a hint of coastal weather influence.
• Exposure: full sun.
• Hardiness rating: 7 – 11
• Heat zone rating: 7 – 11
• Climate zone rating: 17
Background information:
• Discovered in 1846.
• Scientific name: Hesperocyparis macrocarpa (formerly Cupressus macrocarpa).
• Is native only to the Monterey peninsula (although it can be grown in most any coastal setting). Many years ago, the entire species was found to be growing in just two tiny groves: one at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach, and another at Point Lobos.
Priced to sell quickly: $20 per pot.