Cupressus sempervirens are the cypress you see as fences, at the edges of fields in Tuscany and Spain. Their true picture has been painted by Van Gogh and many others. When my new cupressus sempervirens grow they will protect my house from the street, like this.
Now they are very small. They came from Oregon, in a cardboard box, and I planted them today. I have mulched them with pine straw. Those of us who know what we are doing, are not using cypress mulch.
Axé.