Looking for relief from the sun? These seven fast-growing shade trees are perfect for creating a cooler, more comfortable backyard in a short time.

But the trails, which wind through year-round vegetation and a photogenic tunnel of weeping bald cypress trees, draw tourists all year long, says David Creech, director of the SFA Gardens.

These trees are known as Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum). The Bald Cypress is a large, slow-growing, and long-lived tree. It can reach heights of up to 120 feet with trunks up to 7 feet in diameter.

Before this period, bald cypress trees in the region commonly lived for more than 470 years. However, after 500 A.D., their average lifespan declined sharply to just 186 years.

The bald cypress tree (Taxodiumdistichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky wetlands of the American Southeast. These towering trees are some of the ...

We used to use cypress mulch from big old trees, but we have used up the supplies of that. The cypress mulch we can get now is from smaller trees and they no longer contain the insect repellent ...

Tucked into the humid wetlands of the American Southeast, the bald cypress rises with quiet determination. These towering trees, known for their knobby knees and flared bases, don’t just dominate the ...

Connie Uddo, director of NOLA Tree Planting Project, show volunteers how to spread mulch away from the base of a freshly planted bald cypress tree during a Super Bowl Week tree-planting event at ...

We used to use cypress mulch from big old trees, but we have used up the supplies of that. The cypress mulch we can get now is from smaller trees and they no longer contain the insect repellent ...

University of Illinois Extension McLean County Master Gardeners will host an herb garden experience workshop from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 25.

These trees are known as bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). The bald cypress is a large, slow-growing and long-lived tree. It can reach heights of up to 120 feet with trunks up to seven feet in ...