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Bhutan Cypress (Topiary Mushroom)
Cupressus torulosa
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Supplied in 500mm
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Bhutan Cypress (Topiary Mushroom) - Cupressus torulosa
The mushroom is the softest of the clipped cypress forms: a short bare stem carrying a wide, low, domed head that is broader than it is tall. Trained from Cupressus torulosa, it uses a conifer that holds fine dense foliage in hot, dry, exposed Australian conditions where a broadleaf topiary would need constant watering. The low dome sits at the height of a garden wall or a bench, so it works where you want formal shape without blocking a view or a sightline.
Why the Mushroom Form
Low Silhouette: The wide flattened dome keeps sightlines open across a bed or a courtyard.
Surface Density: Fine foliage clipped to a dome catches light across the curve, which gives the form real depth rather than a flat green mass.
Heat Resilience: Copes with reflected heat off gravel, paving and rendered walls without scorching.
Shape Retention: Moderate growth means the dome stays crisp between the two annual clips rather than blurring within weeks.
Soil Tolerance: Grows well on poor, stony and alkaline soils that defeat most clipped hedging plants.
Ideal Applications
Low Formal Massing: Groups of three or five domes at varied spacing in a gravel bed read as a designed composition.
Beside Steps and Terraces: Low enough to sit alongside a stair run without crowding it.
Courtyard Planters: A single dome in a wide bowl gives the shape of a clipped hedge in a single object.
View Preserving Structure: Formal planting in a front garden that does not obscure the house or the outlook.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 1.5m for a low continuous clipped run.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m so each dome is read on its own.
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring.
Soil & Drainage: Sharply draining soil of any fertility. It will not tolerate a bed that stays wet after heavy rain.
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly for the first summer, dropping to a weekly soak in the second, and always at the root zone rather than over the foliage. Mulch clear of the stem, feed with a slow release fertiliser each spring, and clip in dry conditions in late spring and again in late summer to reduce the risk of cypress canker.
Plant Details
Height: 1.6 to 2.2m as maintained topiary
Width: 1 to 1.5m across the dome
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen conifer
Light: Full sun
Native to: The Himalaya, including Bhutan, Nepal, northern India and south west China
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
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How It Works
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We Supply
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We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







