PLANT NOW: Plant summer-blooming bulbs such as crocosmia, gingers, canna, pineapple lily (Eucomis), elephant ears, crinum, agapanthus and others. WHAT'S AT STAKE: Tomatoes are staked to keep the ...

Swamp denizen and street tree, tolerant of so much, yet so forgiving. Bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) are some of the longest-lived trees in the world, reaching over 2,000 years where happy.

They shoot up quickly and are pretty year-round. This tree grows 60 feet tall and 40 feet wide with a loosely pyramidal shape. It boasts silvery bark and three-lobed leaves that turn bright yellow, ...