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.

Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. These trees are known as Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. These trees are known as bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. These trees are known as bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). The bald cypress is a large, ...

They dug holes and planted sycamore, tulip poplar, bald cypress, bur oak, Kentucky coffee, white oak, forsythia and black gum.

Shana Williams learns about bald cypress trees and old growth forests with Jeff Wright and Maeve Coker from Friends of Dragon Run at the Dragon Run watershed on the Middle Peninsula. Featured on ...

And the “bald” part of cypress? It’s deciduous. Like larches in the autumn, baldcypress leaves turn a beautiful coppery color then drop, to leave the silvery bark to carry structural detail through ...

On the other hand, bald cypress trees drop their leaves every fall. The native environments of these two plants are very different.

Austin isn’t known for its fall foliage. But some years, when the region gets the right combination of rain, cold weather, and shorter days, a certain magic happens. The bald cypress trees, pecans, ...

In autumn, bald cypress leaves turn yellow, orange and red before falling off the trees. The mix of autumnal colors and wispy Spanish moss gives the cypress swamps a haunted look. During the past few ...