Originally posted by dave in el dorado ca:
I planted a bald cypress, pond cypress, and montezuma cypress below my dam in the creekbed floodplain here many years ago but the deer knocked down the protective fencing and killed em....i'm gonna try a again one of these years.....nice tree.
Dave,
Yes, its a Bald Cypress...straight from the "free tree" program of the National Arbor Society. I love Cypress and would encourage you to try again...but they require a lot of water and do not fair well with any periods of water absence. The front yard tree had outstanding growth largely because of the constant availability of water.
