The Connie Hansen Garden Conservancy
Open from Dawn to Dusk Daily
Free of Charge
Your donations keep the garden alive!
We welcome you to stroll through the garden any time each day from dawn to dusk. There are many enchanting pathways, some wheelchair accessible. Take any route that appeals and stay as long as you'd like. Yes, pets on leashes are welcome to enjoy the garden too! Admission is free but we welcome the appreciative support of visitors through donations, plant purchases and gift shopping.
Gift Shop Hours
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
March through Mid-December
(Closed During Winter)
Hinoki Cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa
A confierous evergreen tree from southern Japan.
Located in Bed #1 - just off the sw corner of the front portch
About our Hinoki Cypress
There are many cultivars of this fine, easily grown species of Chamaecyparis. It is from southern Japan, broadly conical in form, with dark green, scaly, fanshaped leaves and dark reddish bark. Although we have not determined which ours may be, it is relatively slow growing and may be a dwarf variety. Careful thinning and tip pruning annually now keep our tree in perfect shape.
Why significant to us
It seems that Connie was so enamored of what must at the time have been a fairly recent acquisition, that when she made the move to Oregon from her home in Walnut Creek California, she had the young tree dug, potted up and brought, with no small effort, to her new garden. She planted it close to the house so she could monitor its progress daily.