MSD - Cypress & Crape Myrtle Hedge (20 LI) C/M

Morgan Sim Designs - Cypress & Crape Myrtle Hedge (20 LI) Copy/Modify No Transfer

Foot Print: 11.5 Width x 3 Depth (Meters)

A living hedge with cypress trees, crape myrtle shrubs, various ground plants, flowers and bushes.

Crape Myrtle Mythology
Adonis’s story states that his mother, Myrrha – daughter of the king Theias of Assyria – tried to escape from the clutches of her tyrannical parentage, and so the goddess Aphrodite turned her into a myrtle tree. Theias, still quite angry with his daughter, shot an arrow into the trunk of the tree, which shattered the bark. From the newly made hole, Adonis sprang forth.

Cypress
Known as the ‘mournful tree’ by the Greeks and the Romans, the tree was sacred to the Fates and Furies as well as the rulers of the underworld. The tree would be planted by a grave, in front of the house or vestibule as a warning against outsiders entering a place corrupted by a dead body. Romans would carry branches of cypress as a sign of respect and bodies of the respected were placed upon cypress branches previous to interment. It is such for reasons as this that the tree still survives in the Muslim world and in Western culture, the cypress designates hope, as the tree points to the heavens.