On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 5:55:17 PM UTC-5, Kirk Wasson wrote:
I build outdoor furniture out of cypress. It is getting more expensive each year because no one is growing it. I have chairs that have been in the weather for 20 years with nothing more than some polyurethane every couple of years. The last great cypress I bought was from Wilson Lumber in Memphis..
The neat thing is after all these years, when the sun heats up my Adirondack chair I can smell the fresh lumber.

But the problem with cypress is that the to get the weather resistance its noted for, you need to get old growth, or at least heart wood from the newer stuff. The sapwood is almost as weather sensitive as pine.