Leyland Cypress Tree

The fastest route to a tall, private green wall — Leyland Cypress can climb 3 to 4 feet a year to screen out the world.

Leyland Cypress (Cupressus × leylandii) is the classic privacy conifer, prized for speed. Its soft, feathery sprays of flat, blue-green to deep-green foliage form a dense, columnar-to-pyramidal pillar that holds its color through every season. With a fast growth rate and a mature size of 40 to 60 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide, it is built for tall screens, windbreaks, and property-line privacy where you want height in a hurry.

Why growers choose the Leyland Cypress

• Fast privacy. One of the quickest-growing evergreens available, it can add several feet per year and close gaps along a fence line within a few seasons.
• Year-round screen. The dense, feathery foliage stays evergreen and full to the ground when young, blocking sightlines and softening wind in every season.
• Soft, handsome color. Flat sprays of blue-green to rich green give a fine, graceful texture that reads softer than a stiff arborvitae or spruce.
• Tough and adaptable. Thrives in full sun across a wide climate range, tolerates a variety of soils, and handles coastal and salt-spray sites better than most conifers.
• Deer tend to leave it alone. Far less browsed than arborvitae, making it a more reliable screen where deer pressure is high.

Planted in a single row, Leyland Cypress quickly becomes a living privacy hedge or windbreak; given room as a standalone specimen, it grows into a tall, graceful pyramid. Just give it the space its full size demands — this is a big tree, and crowding it invites disease.