Deer-resistant and low in fuss
blackcurrant scent of the plant when brushed
extending the native wisteria season
because every part of this cycad is highly toxic when eaten
and the leaves take on a purple cast in autumn before they fall
Taxodium ascendens David Geiger Deer-resistant and low in fussPond 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