Silver Smoke Arizona Cypress
Cupressus arizonica glabra ‘Silver Smoke’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-9b  Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Coniferous Evergreen Tree
Height at Maturity:Â 20-30′
Width at Maturity:Â 8-10′
Spacing:Â 8′ apart for hedges or screens; 16’+ apart for space between
Spacing:Â 8′ apart for hedges or screens; 16’+ apart for space between
Growth Habit / Form:Â Conical, Upright
Growth Rate:Â Fast
Foliage Color:Â Smoky Light Silver-Grey
Fragrant Foliage:Â Yes, pine scented
Sun Needs:Â Full Sun or Mostly Sun
Water Needs:Â Â Average, low when established
Soil Type:Â Â Clay, Loam, Sand, SiltÂ
Soil Drainage:Â Well Drained
Soil pH:Â 6.0 – 7.0
Maintenance / Care:Â Very Low
Attracts:Â Visual Attention, Birds
Resistances:Â Deer –Â more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Insect
Description
This unique clone of the Carolina Sapphire Cypress is a total winner! ‘Silver Smoke’ has the brightest, smokey grey foliage we’ve ever seen on a Cupressus glabra, also known as the Arizona Cypress. The foliage produces the illusion of smoke against its reddish brown, peeling bark. The habit and form is similar to others in the genus but the color of Silver Smoke leaves all others in the smoke! A fine selection for use in privacy screen plantings, as a specimen anywhere in the sunny landscape, or as a corner plant to frame tall homes or other structures.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in an upright conical form 20 to 30 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide, the Silver Smoke Cypress is ideal for use in evergreen privacy screen plantings. It is also useful to frame the corners of tall homes and other buildings or as a specimen or background plant anywhere in sunny landscape borders. A fine addition to conifer gardens, white or grey theme gardens, bird gardens, wildlife gardens and Xeriscape gardens (low water needs). Perfect for an outdoor Christmas tree!
Suggested Spacing:Â Â 8 to 10 feet apart for privacy screen plantings;Â 16 feet or more apart for space between trees
Note:Â For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Cypress tree is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. That said, it will need a well-lit indoor location and will need to be transplanted to the landscape when it becomes to large to grow in a container.
Growing Preferences
The Silver Smoke Cypress is tolerant of a wide range of soils, even clay. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and plenty of sunshine. Will tolerate light shade, but plants in full to mostly sun are much fuller. Exceptionally drought tolerant and low maintenance with no pruning necessary to keep its dense, naturally conical form.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Cypress trees.
How To Plant & Care For Cypress Trees
Privacy Screen Design And Planting Tips
Plant Long & Prosper!
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So very impressed with the way Wilson Bros packages the trees and shrubs I ordered. They were all healthy and in beautiful condition. It has been about 2 weeks and my 2 Smoke Cypress are holding up well.
I was so impressed with care Wilson Bro’s took to insure what you ordered arrived in good condition. I have ordered more….My husband is about to strangle me———————————————-Oh no……..I hope not! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I was so impressed with care Wilson Bro’s took to insure what you ordered arrived in good condition. I have ordered more….My husband is about to strangle me———————————————-Oh no……..I hope not! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This 3 ft tree came perfectly packed. Upon opening the box a heavenly scent of cedar came forth. Then the extra wow of the silver foliage. This is planted as a backdrop to a flowering plum, can’t wait till it grows taller.————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I can’t say enough about your plants and trees. We have had very good quality. Our roses have flowers from the time we planted them to now. We are looking for trees or plants we automatically go to your website.
Every plant comes through the mail just like we went and picked them up.
Thank you!———————————————————–Thanks so much for your review. Let us know if there’s ever anything we can help you with. 🙂 – Beth | WBG
Every plant comes through the mail just like we went and picked them up.
Thank you!———————————————————–Thanks so much for your review. Let us know if there’s ever anything we can help you with. 🙂 – Beth | WBG
Ordered two plants — they arrived very quickly, well packed, sized as expected, and both beamingly healthy (as with all other orders I placed with Wilson Brothers, which, by now, quite a few). The attached picture shows one of the two plants in ground in exactly one month after arrival.—————————————-Thanks for the awesome pic! We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
These trees arrived well boxed I put them in the greenhouse to acclimate will plant them spring.——————————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
I did receive the lovely cypress tree and it’s beautiful!! It was very well packaged and just the right size to be one of the cypress tree centerpieces for decoration this year. It will be in a huge pot on the patio later and be my outdoor lit tree until it outgrows the pot.
I love it!!??????????
Cheers and happy holidays!—————————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I love it!!??????????
Cheers and happy holidays!—————————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
As always, this plant was packed well and showed up in excellent condition. Its the proper size for its container with strong well established roots, but not potbound.——————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Quite happy with purchase, nice plant quick turn around.———————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The tree came in excellent condition, and we are looking forward to watching it grow. We love the color of the tree, and it will be an unusual, beautiful addition to our yard.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Ordered the silver smoke cypress and a number of other things. All were in perfect condition when they arrived. Most notable of all was the INCREDIBLE attention paid to packaging. have ordered from many other big online nurseries and none come close in their care in shipping. Your order WILL arrive without damage.——————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words!! Beth | WBG 🙂
These trees came in perfect condition. They were bigger than I thought they would be.———————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Looks great, thank you! Doing great, and growing up a storm. love it!—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This is my second time ordering from Wilson Bros. and both times the trees have been packaged well and came in excellent condition. The website is easy to navigate and order from and questions about products are answered quickly. I planted my Silver Smoke Cypress as soon as it arrived and it seems to be thriving. I also enjoy looking through all of their “hard to find” or rare plants and trees which is how I came across this purchase.——————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review and the kind words! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I do a lot of online plant shopping, especially during COVID 19.. I must say, these trees came packaged extremely well, so well in fact that it is difficult to open the box!! lol!! AND, they were in PERFECT condition!! All are planted, and I have ordered several more!! I am a very satisfied customer!—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I had two in GA (north of Atlanta) and they did so well, were so fragrant and well formed. We’ll see how well they do in OR (we’re in the same Zone oddly enough)! Won’t be ready to plant them in the ground ’til fall so hope they survive transplanting into larger containers ’til I can properly install them. Thanks again.——————————————-We are so happy you are pleased with your purchase! Beth | WBG
We ordered three of these and planted them more than a month ago. They are thriving and filling out beautifully.——————————Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG
I have ordered trees from Wilson Brother’s Gardens on 2 occasions and I am very happy with the size and quality of the trees received. The team really seems to care about my satisfaction with those trees. I did have an issue with 1 tree (out of 6) on my first order and it was resolved quickly and without a hassle, I am impressed by the outstanding customer service I received. I definitely recommend this company and I will buy from them again.





















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