Most privacy trees take years to fill in and provide screening, but this fast-growing evergreen creates dense barriers in ...

We have a cypress tree, and we were wondering if the fallen needles would be good mulch. We know oak leaves are good mulch, but are maple leaves also suitable? Also, is there anything you can suggest ...

JUST HOW impressive a tree is the bald cypress, which hTC reaches its northern limits on a few favored rivers of the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland? Certainly one would not compare it to the ...

Blue cypress like this 'Blue Ice' variety make showy evergreen landscape specimens, but they're also prone to damage in cold winters. Q: We have a blue cypress tree that's been looking bad since the ...

Perry-lee West, likes everything about a bald cypress — from the way the tree looks in the fall, to the way it reproduces, from mysteries surrounding its knees, to the way those knees sequester soil ...

In a past column I listed the bald cypress as one of the uncommon trees native to Indiana. I wrote so much about where it is found in our state that I ran out of space before I could describe what ...

Ancient bald cypress trees tower along the Black River in the state of North Carolina in the United States. Many of these living trees are over a thousand years old, researchers had estimated in the ...

After a stand of cypress resisted a forest fire that burned 50,000 acres in Spain, researchers say that the plant could be used as a buffer to prevent other fires from spreading. (Bernabe Moya) The ...

Bald cypresses along the Black River in North Carolina. Charlie Peek "There is no other place on Earth like this," Angie Carl says. Her voice carries across the swamp of North Carolina's Black River ...