Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a ...

Bald cypress trees usually draw extra attention during this time of year because their needles are changing colors and dropping to the ground like the leaves of many broadleaf trees. Since most ...

Common name: Dwarf baldcypress, dwarf swamp cypress Latin name: Taxodium distichum ‘Peve Minaret’ Plant size: 6-10′ high by 3′ wide in 10 years USDA Hardiness Zones: 5-11 (marginally in ...

I would like to plant several dawn redwood or bald cypress trees this fall. They seem very similar to me. What is the difference between the plants? Both are deciduous trees with a soft ferny textu… ...

Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. ... Bald Cypress trees grow in flood-prone sites, so the ground is often soft and muddy.

Virtually all tree leaves are excellent for mulching or composting, including the cypress, oak and maple that you mention. You can use the cypress needles in beds of shrubs, flowers or vegetables.

On the other hand, bald cypress trees drop their leaves every fall. The native environments of these two plants are very different. Spruce trees tend to be adapted to colder areas in high ...

The needle-like leaves of the bald cypress turn from green to a cinnamon-brown or copper color in the fall.

"Bald cypress trees do lose their leaves, so they'll turn from green to a rusty red." More: Big Bend National Park makes National Geographic's 'Best of the World' list ...

Bald cypress swamps were North America’s Amazon 120 years ago, covering an estimated 40 million acres of the serpentine forested wetlands of the South.