The home we’re in has a stately line of Italian cypress along our western wall, providing a nice screen from the neighboring property. The trees are 20 to 30 feet tall and seem to be doing nicely.

A: Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) is a narrow evergreen alright, but it's borderline winter-hardy. It's actually rated only to Zone 7, which is a level warmer than our Zone 6.

Italian cypresses are large trees reaching at least 50 feet tall and should not be used in most residential landscapes because of their height. The biggest mistake made, I believe, is watering too ...

Borers -- several people have reported borers in Italian cypress, but this has never been a common occurrence in the past. I could not find it reported anywhere else, either.

A reader inquired about the care of 20 Italian cypress trees, about 60 years old, on a property he recently purchased. He was excited to have them “sheared and cared for” since they looked ...

Spider mites do attack Italian cypress. They usually start toward the bottoms of the plants and flush upward and outward. Assuming you have not applied any type of insecticide or miticide, the ...

Italian Cypress tree, Seridium Canker Disease, Richardson (Micah Pace / Preservation Tree Services) Would I plant any Italian cypresses in my garden or design them into anyone else's garden?

Q: I have five mature Italian cypress trees. They are planted in a 2-foot-wide strip of earth between our driveway and a stone wall. The trees are 20 feet tall but only 2 feet wide.

Stressed Italian cypress trees throughout North Texas are turning an ugly brown, and many are dying. The problem has gotten so bad that trees in nurseries have been affected, so buy carefully.