Plant of the Week - show 313

T-shirt winner: Anne Spafford, Raleigh, NC

Common Name:
Weeping Bald Cypress

Scientific Name:
Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls'

Type: deciduous conifer

Habit: weeping

Foliage: fine-textured needles (turn golden brown in fall)

Culture:

• full sun
• grows well  in standing water and compacted soils

Other:

• train on a stake, let branches weep
• native to the southeast region

Use:

• specimen plant
• near water element