Cypress posts in ground or on stirrups?

Hi forum,

We're planning to add a pergola fixed to the house on one side with cypress posts on the other. The cypress posts would be sitting in a moist garden bed. We also want to plant wysteria which would eventually climb up the posts.

My question is, how durable is cypress? Is using stirrups in a concrete footing and then fixing cypress posts going overboard, or is the cypress durable enough to be concreted into the footing without stirrups?


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