Fall Tree Planting: Bald Cypress
Recently, we made a stop at the Home Depot to pick up some painting supplies for a project and I, as I usually do, wandered out to the garden center. There....I was confronted with a bunch of small fall-planting-ready trees. Most of them were fruit trees, but mixed in on the pallets were a few shade trees. But there was one small tree that caught my eye: a small (less than 1" caliper) Bald Cypress. Priced at $19, I had a hard time passing it up. That's it in the photo above and you can see that it is small and...dare I say....scrawny. But at $19, it isn't all that much different than the Dawn Redwood that I planted as a replacement earlier this Summer . Nat's folks have a couple of Bald Cypresses and there are a few down at Barth Pond (that we use to mark the water level of the pond!) and at Whittier School in our neighborhood. Each time we walk by them or see them, I remark that I'd like to have one of those trees on Hornbeam Hill. Now? We have