If they had a barfing emoji, I'd use it immediately after saying Leyland cypress. There are so many of those here, they are starting to rival arborvitaes as the most over planted conifer. Here people plant them just so they can have fast growing evergreens. Unfortunately, in our area, the only get so tall before a storm blows them over or a heavy snow load takes them down. Also, in the winter of 13-14 many of them browned out badly and had to be cut down. Now, as far as browning goes, my cryptomeria aren't much better but at least they look better IMO.
How much shade does your SS cryp get? The one on the west side of our house gets much more shade from our neighbor's red maple and that is a little sparse as well. The east side one gets tons of sun and is very thick and full. I was really dumb when I planted them though
and they were both planted way too close to the house. The east side one is alright but the one on the west side may eventually need to be cut down because of it.
