Bring elegant color and vertical interest to your landscape with Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Golden Pillar’, a compact evergreen conifer prized for its glowing golden foliage and refined pyramidal form. This slow-growing Hinoki Cypress features soft fan-like sprays of foliage with bright golden-yellow tips and rich green interior tones that create beautiful year-round contrast.

As the seasons change, the foliage develops warm coppery-bronze tones in fall, adding additional seasonal beauty to gardens and containers. Its narrow upright habit makes it ideal for small-space gardens, borders, foundation plantings, rock gardens, and Asian-inspired landscapes. Low maintenance and highly ornamental, ‘Golden Pillar’ is a stunning accent plant for any landscape style. You will receive a healthy container-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Golden Pillar’
✔️ Grown in #1 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted evergreen conifer
✔️ Compact golden foliage landscape plant
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Golden Pillar Hinoki Cypress
• Botanical Name: Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Golden Pillar’
• Plant Type: Evergreen conifer shrub
• Growth Stage: Established container-grown plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; prefers evenly moist conditions
• Mature Height: Approximately 3 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 1 foot
• Growth Rate: Slow growing
• USDA Zones: 4–8
• Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip

Plant in a location with good air circulation and well-draining soil to maintain healthy foliage color and prevent stress. Mulching helps retain moisture during warmer months.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.