Falling Waters (Taxodium distichum 'Falling Waters') - foliage plant, illustrated plant card

Falling Waters

Taxodium distichum 'Falling Waters'

Falling Waters is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.

Bloom time
Foliage plant
Hardiness
Zones 4–9
Sun
Full sun
Water
High water
Mature size
20 ft × 6.6 ft
Type
Conifer
Verification

Mature size, hardiness zones, sun and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant. The bloom months and water need on this page were not.

Growing Falling Waters

Plant it in full sun. It prefers high water. It is hardy in USDA zones 4–9. Expect it to reach about 20 ft tall and 6.6 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 18 years.

When to plant Falling Waters

Plant Falling Waters in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. For the middle of its hardy zones 4 to 9 range, that is March to May, or August on the fall side.

Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar: for the middle of its range, start with zone 6 in March.

The Bald Cypress family

One of 4 in the Bald Cypress family. Same plant, same care.

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