cedar and cypress fences?

[CohenCottage]

Good morning everyone. Hope y'all are enjoying the nice weather and surviving the pollen explosion. We are going to copy Heather and do a front yard picket fence, but we want to leave it a natural wood that will fade to gray (our crawl space, etc on the house is a brown gray). I'm trading out with a fence guy for dog training so this isn't going to cost anything and we don't have to do it ourselves. He has cedar and cypress (southern bald cypress) available to use for the fence. I know the cedar will fade to gray, but do y'all know what color untreated cypress will weather?

Thanks!

ps - here is what our fence will look like
http://resurrection.com.au/images/vic/v_043_b.jpg

[Heather]

CC I found this:
http://www.wsmaonline.org/cypress_fences_1-3.pdf
It shows pics too.

[CohenCottage]

thanks! it says it fades to pewter over time...

[Gigi]

We're going to do a picket fence too! We have a white arbor my youngest son built for his wedding (last September)- so we already added that to the front walk- and now waiting for the white pickets to "pick" out :p

Sorry CC I don't know about the weathering of untreated cypress- but there's no doubt where you would purchase it would know.

[allen820]

Thanks for the information on cypress. My project for the next several days will be to put up a 32 x 32 picket fence around our garden. The picketts and support boards are western cedar and the posts are cypress. The guy I am getting the material from said that was an idea combination, and the woods would weather well together. I was skeptical, wondering if the guy just had too many cypress posts and wanted to unload a few! Anyway, your information helps and is very timely!

We are building a fence here at our ol' Norris house that duplicates as best as we can the victorian type pickett fences we have seen at Rugby (see www.historicrugby.org). We went up and took measurements and photos and had the panels built to match. These will be delivered tomorrow. Now if I can figure how to get them together and my back holds out, we should have a fence in place by the weekend. Maybe I'll even post pictures!

Allen