Knees are knobby root growth that protrude above the ground surface on the cypress, usually in more moist conditions. They ...

Not every plant with a needle is an evergreen. Last week, we learned larches drop their needles in the fall. Other, more common trees that drop their needles are the bald cypress and its close ...

What: This selection of pond cypress (Taxodium distichum var. imbricatum ‘Nutans’) is a froth of feathery, bright green foliage arranged around an arrow-straight trunk. This unusual deciduous conifer ...

Forty years ago I discovered an unusual tree growing in the Lakewood neighborhood. It appeared to be a bald cypress, but the overall form was thinner and the foliage was quite different. After some ...

The half-million-acre Cache River Watershed looks more like the far South than Southern Illinois. This natural wonder support ancient cypress trees – some of them more than 100 feet tall and more than ...

We have a bald cypress tree, and we were wondering if the needles from the cypress tree we are raking up now would be good for mulching. We know oak leaves are a good mulch, but are maple leaves also ...

A couple of years ago, as the spread of COVID-19 subsided, my co-workers and I planted a memorial tree just outside our workplace. We wanted to remember those we’d lost during the pandemic, and it ...

WHAT: This variety of pond cypress produces a froth of feathery, bright green foliage arranged around an arrow-straight trunk. It is an unusual deciduous conifer with a slender, delicate growth habit ...