Its inviting scent makes this tree a great pick for landscaping. Reviewed by Andrew Hughes You might recognize the lemon cypress as the potted evergreen that seems to show up in every big box retail ...

A pint-sized variety of the Monterey cypress, lemon cypress trees are famous for their unique, chartreuse needles and their refreshing, lemon-like fragrance. While these plants are often used as short ...

Growing plants from seeds is incredibly satisfying. And when those seeds would otherwise be thrown in the trash, there is ...

“Cypress” is a name or nickname bestowed on a variety of species of trees. Technically, the term refers to coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae. In that group, there are true cypress ...

Suppose you have a favorite tree and you’d like to have another just like it. Can you grow a new one from seed? After all, nature does it all the time. Yet a tree in the forest bears tens of thousands ...

False cypress (Chamaecyparis spp.) is a genus that includes six species of evergreen trees. You can use them as specimen plants to add vertical interest in the landscape. And since they are evergreen, ...

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