Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky ...

Consider this a cautionary tale, in the best sense of things. I first heard of Cat Island Wildlife Refuge when I moved to Louisiana. People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bald cypress trees are native to North America, and are typically found within a range spanning from the Southern U.S. to the ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...

The way the legend goes, the enormous bald cypress grew from the ground 200 years ago when Louisville’s founder George Rogers Clark stuck his walking stick into the ground. That’s a "nice story," ...

Guys whose follicles are dwindling on a daily basis probably don’t think bald is beautiful. But when the subject shifts to deciduous trees, many species are stunning as they approach dormancy and ...

In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Tree huggers, you’re going to need longer arms. A Grand Rapids man may have found one of the biggest trees in the state. Rob Nelson won the prize of “Potential State Champion Tree” ...

Don’t you wish you knew then what you know now? Speaking from experience, when I first began studying plants, people would ask me lots of gardening or landscaping questions. Did I as a first-year ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I have three bald cypress trees in my yard planted close to each other.

Fall is a time when the color of the leaves on many trees start to change, a phenomenon caused by the shift in production of pigments within the plant. Most plants produce primarily chlorophyll ...