Taxodium ascendens David Geiger 'Jermyn's Globe' suits a low

'Jermyn's Globe' suits a low evergreen border

because every part of this cycad is highly toxic when eaten

though the shrub holds up in part shade

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

is why the species is so seldom offered and so highly prized

Taxodium ascendens David Geiger 'Jermyn's Globe' suits a lowPond 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