Taxodium ascendens David Geiger the bright grass-green needles hang

the bright grass-green needles hang straight down from the branches in feathery curtains

blue wild indigo is as tough as a perennial comes: nitrogen-fixing

'Jermyn's Globe' suits a low evergreen border

blackcurrant scent of the plant when brushed

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

Taxodium ascendens David Geiger the bright grass-green needles hangPond 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