Other trees often sold as pond cypress can have foliage that partially opens the leaflets. Some of these trees don't seem to like our soils and thus become chlorotic and turn yellow.

Although these two trees have much in common – both bald cypress and red maple prefer moist sites and grow rapidly when young – they’re vastly different in other respects, especially ...

Q: This is a tree in our yard we can't identify. It recently attracted lots of butterflies and bees with its tiny white or possibly yellow flowers.

Unlike other cypress trees, the bald cypress loses its needles in winter, which is how it got its name, “bald.” Interestingly, too, the needles are short and really look more fernlike, with ...

Like their cypress cousins in Southern bayous, yellow cedars grow in specialized conditions, using the boggy muskegs with poorly drained soils where few other trees can grow to compete for sunlight.

As to the problem with knees, most cypress trees planted in well-drained average landscapes do not produce knees. But once a tree starts, there is no way to make it stop other than removing the tree.