In California, it is hard to imagine that hinoki cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa, gets big enough to be harvested for lumber in Japan. Almost all of the local garden varieties stay quite short. The ...

Eight years ago, Danielle Corona moved production for her accessories brand, Hunting Season, to Colombia, and then she set up house there herself. By Mimi Vu The accessories designer Danielle Corona ...

For bonsai grower Randy Bennett, practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice does, however, keep the miniature trees alive to see another day. Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing ornamental, ...

NAKATSUGAWA, Gifu Prefecture--Disappointed lumber workers here were stuck with a bunch of unwanted planter boxes made from high-quality local Japanese “hinoki” cypress that they wrongly assumed would ...

Twenty-two years ago, I was walking trough a commercial wholesale nursery searching for just the right trees for a special project I was working on. Along with several other plants, I purchased a ...

Q: An entire branch on my Hinoki cypress browned out and died. I looked at where the branch meets the main trunk and saw that the outer bark of the branch has peeled away from the "core" for about two ...

You probably know that I’m a big fan of the dwarf hinoki cypress. A unique upright form that looks great in the mixed border is Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Spiralis.’ Densely covered with dark- green ...