Garden Goods Direct Trees Bald Cypress

Bald Cypress Trees are deciduous and typically used as a specimen or in small groves, particularly in wet soil or as a street tree. Bald Cypress Trees (Taxodium distichum) make beautiful dense screening and windbreak trees. Terrific fall color.

Bald Cypress Trees are a long-lived wetland monarch. They are an incredibly important component of floodplains, sloughs, swamps, or anywhere else that remains too wet for most other trees. Wood from mature Bald Cypress Trees is highly valuable due to its ability to withstand the elements, and because of this has spurned an industry of “recyclers” who salvage lumber from old buildings or sinker logs from waterways to put it back to use. Bald Cypress Trees popularity as a landscape specimen has proven its tolerance to colder and drier conditions than its natural range indicates.