Taxodium ascendens David Geiger blackcurrant scent of the plant

blackcurrant scent of the plant when brushed

though the shrub holds up in part shade

The trailing forms have long been prized for softening the hard edges of terraces and stone in the old hillside gardens of Italy and Spain

extending the native wisteria season

Taxodium ascendens David Geiger blackcurrant scent of the plantPond cypress is the quieter of the two native bald cypresses, a deciduous conifer closely related to the more widespread Taxodium distichum but smaller, tidier, and distinct in leaf. Where bald cypress wears soft, feather like foliage, pond cypress carries fine, scale like leaves pressed close and ascending along the shoots, giving the young tree a narrow, almost columnar, pyramidal outline. The name Taxodium means yew like, for the foliage, and