Thanks to recent rainfall in Southwest Florida, the conditions are ideal for Wet Walks at the Six Mile Cypress Slough ...

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.

I mused about why cypress tree roots develop woody structures that poke up through swamp mud around them, a question unresolved by botanists.

Bald cypress are the most hardy tree to grow in standing water, and can live for over 600 years. The roots form knees above ...

I mused about why cypress tree roots develop woody structures that poke up through swamp mud around them, a question unresolved by botanists.

Dear Neil: I have a lovely cypress tree near a brick gazebo. It has been there 10 years and is putting up knees all over the yard. One of them ...

Dozens of volunteers planted 600 cypress trees near a Madisonville lighthouse on Tuesday morning, organized in connection with the NFL ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans.

In their study, the researchers inserted roots from Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), still attached to the tree, into modified centrifuge tubes filled with glass beads and nutrients.

Dozens of volunteers planted 600 cypress trees near a Madisonville lighthouse on Tuesday morning, organized in connection with the NFL ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans.