Collection: Cupressus Wilma

Cupressus 'Wilma', also sold as Goldcrest Wilma, is a small golden conifer with soft yellow-green foliage that smells of lemon when you brush past it. It grows as a neat upright column, so it gives a pot, a window box or a doorstep height and colour all year.

It's often brought indoors as a Christmas decoration. Keep it cool and watered, then move it back outside after Christmas, where it will stay happy in a pot for years.

Outdoors it copes with an average British winter, but the golden foliage can brown in cold, drying wind, so give it a sheltered spot in sun or partial shade. Trim lightly to shape, and never cut into bare old wood, which won't regrow. In the ground it eventually grows into a large tree, so for a small plant, keep it in a pot.

Sold in sets of 3 or 6 in 1 litre pots. Grown peat-free in Yorkshire.