The dawn redwood can grow up to 120 feet and looks like a bald cypress. But look closely. HARRY R. WRITES: What is the difference between the dawn redwood and bald cypress? A neighbor has two ...

If the pH is very high, amend the soil or choose a different species. Bald cypress is in the same family as redwood. Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is the closest relative and is very ...

I met my first dawn redwood 30 years ago ... like its Southern swamp-loving cousin the bald cypress. I was making the same sort of mistake that many people do about one of our own natives ...

Cypress has ping-pong ball sized globular cones, on very short stems growing singly or in pairs. Dawn redwood has much smaller, rather rectangular cones, growing in clusters on long stems.

Arizona cypress is also evergreen and unrelated to bald cypress but valuable when used in the right place. Dawn redwood is a completely different genus but remarkably similar to bald cypress.

Bald cypress is an excellent, large-growing deciduous tree, but Montezuma cypress is more dependable, faster-growing, almost evergreen and not fussy about soil type. Dawn redwood is similar in ...

Michigan has dense forests with tall trees that include maples, oak and pines — including one commonly mistaken for a dawn ...

Artist Spencer Finch may have brought 4000 miniature Redwood trees to Brooklyn last ... the tree “looks very much like the bald cypress but grows much faster and tolerates a wide range of ...