The south of France, Italy’s rugged coast, Morocco, Greece and southern Spain all contribute plants and art to the design style of the Mediterranean garden. The plants are rooted in ancient c… ...

The dwarf forms are smaller trees so their roots don’t grow as deep. But if you water them frequently or the soil has poor drainage, they will have similar problems to Italian cypresses.

I purchased four golden dwarf Hinoki cypress trees as a holiday accent. I have put them in my breezeway, which is cool but would like to plant them in the yard. Do I need to do that before winter ...

Dwarf forms have entered the market to downsize a Mediterranean villa garden into a tiny city plot. Cigar-shaped Italian cypress trees are the signature plants of the Italian countryside.

A reader inquired about the care of 20 Italian cypress trees, about 60 years old, on a property he recently purchased. He was excited to have them “sheared and cared for” since they looked ...

So if the momma is a 10-foot-tall shrub, a dwarf version may still grow 6 or 8 feet tall. Your cypress can be pruned, but I like to do it with hand pruners and cut back each stem to a joint, one ...

The first step in helping ailing Italian cypresses is to determine if the root flare is covered with soil. I planted 40 Italian cypress two years ago. Now some of them look brown and not healthy ...

Q: I have five mature Italian cypress trees. They are planted in a 2-foot-wide strip of earth between our driveway and a stone wall. The trees are 20 feet tall but only 2 feet wide.