Q: I love bald cypress trees! I have six in my small backyard. They have produced only a few knees. I planted two more in front. They have produced over a hundred knees over the years. I need to ...

Oh, to be a mid-20th-century motorist, tooling through Florida, urged on by those roadside ciphers, scribbled against the sky in hand-cut wooden letters nailed to dead trees. They all led to a literal ...

Perry-lee West, likes everything about a bald cypress — from the way the tree looks in the fall, to the way it reproduces, from mysteries surrounding its knees, to the way those knees sequester soil ...

We have a bald cypress tree, and we were wondering if the needles from the cypress tree we are raking up now would be good for mulching. We know oak leaves are a good mulch, but are maple leaves also ...

For a while, the future of one of the past’s most memorable old-Florida attractions was anyone’s guess. But now, thanks to an agreement between Glades County and a citizens’ group, the state-owned ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The 9News Alert Team got results on a problem that got buried in a bunch of phone calls and emails to City Hall. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish removed two cypress trees and ...

The bald cypress flourishes in southern swamplands. Bald cypress "knees" are woody, knobby projects that fan out from the tree's trunk. A cone-bearing tree called bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) ...

So, it seems, I’m not the only one who’s fallen for the cypress tree, its knees and all its interesting growth habits. Judging from your responses to the column on swamps and cypress trees a couple of ...

Sometimes a bunch of cypress knees are just a bunch of cypress knees. Sometimes, they're something more. Ask Jane St. Amant, who spotted that "something more" one morning while sipping a cup of coffee ...

The autumnal glory of bald cypress trees can now be witnessed dry-shod, thanks to the urban forest diversification efforts of Meg Niederhofer while she was Gainesville’s arborist. These swamp denizens ...

GONZALES — Cypress knees on the grounds of a condominium complex in Gonzales have broken about 50 city water meters, entangled themselves with sewer lines and, though picturesque, generally created ...

Cypress trees and largemouth bass go together like crappie and brush piles. It is fortunate for the thousands of us who love bass fishing, then, that the bald cypress, a beautiful tree of sometimes ...