Leyland Cypress
Cupressus x leylandii
A very fast evergreen with feathery blue-green sprays, planted for quick privacy screens and windbreaks. NC State Extension now advises choosing an alternative: its shallow roots suit hot summers poorly, big trees tend to topple, and bagworms, cankers and root rots often cut its life short.
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- Mature size
- 50 × 17 ft
- 15 × 5.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
Leyland Cypress at its mature size
A mature Leyland Cypress grows 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: patuxentnursery.com, gardenia.net.
Through the year
What Leyland Cypress looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Dense soft blue-green feathery foliage.
Photos
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Growing Leyland Cypress
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Privacy screen and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Western North America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Leyland Cypress, that’s about 17 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Leyland Cypress in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cypresses
Wells Special Hinoki Cypress
Leyland Cypress
Italian Cypress
Bald CypressAll drawn to the same scale.