might need a closer pic to be sure ... but it looks like one of the thread type arbs.. thuja ....

but im not up on the warmer zone alternatives ...

a scale might help ... even if its just your hand holding a branch tip ...

also.. can you confirm if its one of the winter yellow versions.. or is that just a sun/camera trick ...

i see some dead parts near the left top of the second pic ... if it is this tree ... you might want recommendations of a better alternative .. and consider planting one yourself ... just in case this one has a disease of GA ...

ken

So no one has lived in the cabin full time for almost 3 years. Everything needs some TLC for sure. I am currently unpacking boxes, but am really looking forward to spring to get cracking on the garden.

I will take more pics tomorrow, but it does have a definite yellow cast.

Looks like a gold threadleaf Sawara cypress to me, Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea'.

I've seen a few Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea' here in the piedmont of NC that have turned to broad cones with age. This looks identical to them, but with the canopy raised. There are several golden colored pisifera cultivars used around here, and they all do extremely well in the south. Just make sure she gets the right cultivar and remembers that the height on the tag is listed at 10 years, its safe to assume that growth rate will continue for a few decades. Which is why plenty of Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Gold Mop' have swallowed sides of houses.

I've seen bigger, this one is definitely not too big to be a golden thread-branch. And the second shot shows that is definitely what it is anyway.

No doubt all that was being thought about when it was planted right off the road was how it was a little yellow mop-like thing at the time. That's the thing about long-lived shrubs like dwarf conifers and rhododendrons, they just keep slowly progressing as the years go by. So that given enough time that small bush from the nursery is now 15-20 ft. tall.

as i was walking out of the bakery ... and seeing some conifers sticking 3 feet out of plowed piled snow .... next to the wall ... i thought to myself.. what the heck were you thinking.. when you said thuja .... when you meant chameacyparis ....

and when i got home.. i found out the power was off.. and i had to wait 3 hours to chime in.. and correct myself ... and agree with those above ...

ken

Thanks all!

I did take a few extra pictures.

Also, I forgot that when we first bought the cabin we took out another conifer that was growing up through this one, which accounts for some of the damage in the earlier pic. It is starting to fill in where the dead stuff was.

This pic shows how close the trunk of the removed tree was to this one.

Yah ! ken , there was 3 hrs. there when EVERYONE was snickering

ron

annette , very nice photo in front of your cabin