White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of the wind leap at the sea-cliff." Robinson Jeffers penned these words to characterize the Monterey cypress in his 1925 poem "Granite and Cypress." Jeffers knew the tree well. He planted 2,000 Monterey cypresses, Monterey pines and Australian eucalyptus trees in the area surrounding his Carmel Point home. From the … [Read more...] about The Monterey Cypress