I love Bald Cypress,Taxodium distichum! I live in Zone 5 about three miles
from the Mississippi river. I grow it like crazy. There are several
full-grown here in the town I live in. I have no problems growing this
great tree as either pre-bonsai or landscape specimen. I use the seeds in
my potting mix and pick out seedlings all summer. I seem to remember
someone mentioned that they had theirs growing in water, don't know why one
would feel the need to do that. Unless they wanted a mosquito farm. The
tree doesn't need it.


Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, is essentially a temperate tree with a
lot of
heat tolerance. People associate it with Florida, but that is actually the
southern end of its range. it will grow as far north as Zone 6. And it
doesn't
really have to grow in a swamp, as long as it gets plenty of water. There
is a
well-known bald cypress in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. ! (That means in
botanical lingo that I've seen it myself.)
Iris,

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