Garden Tips – Cypress grow in wet, swampy or marshy locations

Cypress wood has been used extensively for building, and the felling and lumbering of the trees a profitable business. Cypress trees are grown in plantations for wood and mulch and still are harvested from the wild.

Bald cypress usually is found in wet, swampy or marshy locations. Their roots are adapted to grow in low-oxygen soils. However, if watered well during the first year of transplant, cypress trees are beautiful in the landscape. They are slow-growing, pest-resistant and have a striking form and fall leaf color.

Organic mulches are good things around trees and in landscape beds. There is a popular notion that mulch made from cypress trees is resistant to rot and repels bugs. Research has proved this to be untrue; cypress is no longer-lasting or insect-repelling than other wood mulches. Read more