A graceful giant with feathery summer foliage and glowing copper fall color, rising elegantly from wetlands, pondsides, and open lawns
FEATURES:
- Soft, feathery needles that turn brilliant copper in fall
- Deciduous conifer that drops its needles for winter
- Naturally pyramidal and stately in form
- Thrives in wet soils, pondsides, and floodplains
- Extremely long lived and highly adaptable
- Resistant to pests, disease, and tough conditions
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip
Provide Bald Cypress with full sun and soils that stay consistently moist, especially during establishment. It thrives in wet or periodically flooded areas but adapts surprisingly well to average garden soils. Add mulch to conserve moisture and create a clean base around the trunk. Pruning is rarely necessary aside from removing lower branches if you desire more clearance. If planted near water, the tree may form its famous cypress knees, adding sculptural interest to the scene. Its blend of durability, grace, and seasonal beauty makes it a standout choice for expansive landscapes.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Mature Height: 50-70' tall
- Mature Width: 25-30' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 25-40' apart
Bald Cypress
Bower & Branch Trees and Plants
Taxodium distichum
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A graceful giant with feathery summer foliage and glowing copper fall color, rising elegantly from wetlands, pondsides, and open lawns
FEATURES:
- Soft, feathery needles that turn brilliant copper in fall
- Deciduous conifer that drops its needles for winter
- Naturally pyramidal and stately in form
- Thrives in wet soils, pondsides, and floodplains
- Extremely long lived and highly adaptable
- Resistant to pests, disease, and tough conditions
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip
Provide Bald Cypress with full sun and soils that stay consistently moist, especially during establishment. It thrives in wet or periodically flooded areas but adapts surprisingly well to average garden soils. Add mulch to conserve moisture and create a clean base around the trunk. Pruning is rarely necessary aside from removing lower branches if you desire more clearance. If planted near water, the tree may form its famous cypress knees, adding sculptural interest to the scene. Its blend of durability, grace, and seasonal beauty makes it a standout choice for expansive landscapes.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Mature Height: 50-70' tall
- Mature Width: 25-30' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 25-40' apart
Why plant Bald Cypress?
Growing arrow-straight into a svelte pyramidal shape, the noble Baldcypress tree (or “Bald Cypress” tree) will stand like a sentinel in your landscape, tall and proud. This regal specimen tree is very approachable, however, with “needles” that are as soft as a kitten. Unusual for a conifer, its foliage falls in late autumn, revealing stringy reddish-gray bark that will be a pleasant sight outside your window in winter. Before the leaves drop, however, they turn shades of copper and bronze. Take advantage of this fact by siting Baldcypress so that the afternoon sun shines through its needles, and this tree will give off a bright, warm coppery-orange glow to lift your spirits on those chilly late fall days.
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina local fisherman found a site off the coast of Alabama in the Gulf of Mexico that was swarming with fish and suspected that there was something “big” underwater. Thinking it was a ship this remained a guarded secret to prevent scuba divers from taking valuable artifacts. Finally in 2012 after being sworn to secrecy Ben Raines was given the secret location from a friend who owned a bait shop. What Raines discovered was an ancient underwater Bald Cypress swamp in pristine condition that was most likely uncovered by hurricane Katrina in 2005. Raines described the experience like this, “Swimming around amidst these stumps and logs, you feel like you’re in this fairy world.” After 50,000 years these trees were so well preserved that when cut into them you can still smell fresh Cypress sap. The forest has become an artificial reef, attracting a variety of marine life and for that reason this treasure has a time limit. Scientists estimate that they have about 2 years to study these trees before wood-burrowing marine animals destroy them.
How to use Bald Cypress in the landscape?
Bald is Beautiful! Taxodium is one of a few conifers providing shade in summer and lets the sun shine through in the winter. This tree actually loses all of its needles in fall. Soft, fine textured, green needles drop off to showcase the outstanding reddish-brown bark in winter adding yet another unique feature to your winter garden. An impressive pyramidal shape forming a very stately tree for your landscape.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-9
How To Plant Bald Cypress
Believe it or not, this is the same Baldcypress that grows in the swamps down South and forms “knees” that seem to rise from the water and surround the base of the tree. The Baldcypress will not form “knees” when grown up North and they don’t need swamp conditions to survive. They like full sun and actually tolerate a very wide range of soil conditions. The Baldcypress is a deciduous conifer, meaning that it loses its needles every winter exposing its reddish brown bark. It has no insect problems and requires relatively low maintenance, it’s a “plant it and forget it” type of tree.
How To Water
Water twice weekly for the first 3-5 weeks; then water weekly for the remainder of the year until winter. When you water, water very slowly and very thoroughly. The water needs to reach to the bottom of the root ball and that takes time. Watering needs may be altered due to extreme weather conditions.
How To Prune
A very low maintenance tree, therefore little pruning work is required. Prune as needed in late winter or very early spring while the tree is still dormant.
Frequently Asked Questions
This can be normal with any evergreen. Like all trees, evergreens do drop foliage - but not all at once. They also tend to drop their foliage from inner positions - so that browning is normal. It can also occur on outer foliage, but usually to a lesser extent.
Are you keeping up with watering? Browning foliage can be a sign that your evergreen needs more water. Deep, consistent waterings are essential until the tree is established.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
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If your tree(s) should fail for any reason during the three-year guarantee period, you will receive an online gift card in the amount that you originally spent on the tree.* You can then use this online gift card for any Bower & Branch Purchase.
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At Bower & Branch, we do our best to honor all guarantee fulfillment requests to ensure customer satisfaction. However, we reserve the right to refuse the request if the required guarantee steps were not satisfied. Bower & Branch also reserves the right to deny any guarantee fulfillment request that is made as a result of animal damage, problems with plant hardiness and zone issues, or acts of nature (snow storms, hurricanes, and similar).
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