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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge woman is dealing with tree trouble. The knees from a cypress tree planted on city property is spreading throughout her front yard. “It looks like something out ...

Q: My bald cypress tree is sending up huge roots above the ground. Can I cut these off? I’m afraid they’ll eventually reach my foundation and damage it. A: You’re probably referring to the tree’s ...

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 ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic trees, with their knobby "knees" and towering trunks, are more than just swamp ...

My neighbor planted a cypress tree near my property line. As it has grown very large, the knees have invaded my yard and are a real problem to mow around. Can the knees be cut back to ground level or ...

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 ...

The city has identified 54 bald cypress whose roots have become a bit energetic in their efforts to ditch their subterranean comforts and have in recent years begun poking through grounds of several ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...