Cypress trees are my personal favorite group of conifers. The five cypress trees I’ll discuss here are very different in appearance. I see a lot of amateur gardeners try to identify conifers based on leaf type, but this doesn’t work. It’s the seeds that give them away. There are two genera of the cypress family that do well in central Texas that I’ll be discussing in this article: Cupressus (Arizona, Italian and Leyland) and Taxodium (Bald and Montezuma). The two groups have very different foliage. Cupressus have scale like foliage much like most junipers and Taxodium have (keep reading…)
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Tree Pruning: volume 4, When to Prune Trees
“When is the best time to prune trees?”This is one of the most common questions I get asked. The truth is there aren’t many timing concerns for tree pruning in the Austin area.
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