This tree is not a true cedar but a member of the juniper family as the botanical name implies.
Red cedar christmas tree.
These cold hardy adaptable evergreen trees serve many purposes in the landscape especially in sites that are dry alkaline or windy.
You clarified that this is a good tree for the garden if we remember right tree right place.
By sharon brown sharran december 25 2012.
It s a member of the juniper family.
Although if you re looking for a one of a kind christmas tree a cedar is a viable option.
The female red cedar has showy purple blue fruits which attract birds.
It also was the signal.
Eastern red cedar juniperus virginiana eastern red cedar is considered the traditional southern christmas tree by many people who can still remember going out in the woods for one as a child.
The leaves jet upwards and are a dark shiny green color.
It is closely related to juniperus scopulorum the rocky mountain juniper.
The eastern red cedar is a popular christmas tree in the southern u s where it is a native species.
Neither species is a true cedar cedrus spp but both provide gardeners sound options for specimen trees.
Branches of the this particular cedar are dense and form a pyramid like shape.
Unlike some species that must be pruned regularly to maintain the traditional cone shape the eastern red cedar comes by its pyramidal crown naturally.
In north america there are two evergreen tree species commonly called red cedars the eastern red cedar juniperus virginiana and the western red cedar thuja plicata perhaps better known as an arborvitae.
Its not a true cedar but is a member of the juniper family.
Eastern red cedar is native to north america.
Moderate to fast growing red cedar can reach a mature height of 25 to 45 feet tall and spread 20 to 30 feet wide.
Because they are quite salt tolerant they can be used near roads driveways and sidewalks.
Many are characterized by color differences that vary from dark green to bluish green to silvery to gray green to bronze.
And like many evergreen trees red cedar plays an important role as nesting and roosting cover for birds and other wildlife in its dense foliage.
My first session of mg training about trees was at a cider place on us 29 s where we walked among the apple trees and saw the damage by deer and heard about apple cedar rust.
About a week or two before christmas my dad would say anybody want a christmas tree this year that was the signal for a trip up the mountain to find the very best christmas tree that would fit into our living room.
Juniperus virginiana is a dense slow growing coniferous evergreen tree that may never become more than a bush on poor soil but is ordinarily from 5 20 m or 16 66 ft tall with a short trunk 30 100 cm or 12 39 inches in diameter rarely to 27 m or 89 ft in height and 170 cm or 67 inches in diameter.
Also commonly referred to as the eastern red cedar pencil cedar and aromatic cedar.
The oldest tree reported from west virginia was 940 years old.
Eastern red cedar.
Thank you for trumpeting the benefits of the eastern red cedar tree pat.
