I got them from Moscarillo's and put them in a line along the road cut for screening. I think they are 'Burkii'.
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| 3/21/10 from the road cut |
I also got some small tubes and 1 gal. pots from Forestfarm in 2006 and put about 10 on the back hill at the top in the sandy gravelly parts. Maybe four remain but they have been beaten down by storms and they get too much shade as the deciduous trees have grown above them.
And there are many wild volunteers.
The small Forestfarm twigs looked awfully crispy and scraggly at first despite watering. They like dry sandy soil, but need to get established. The volunteer ones are quite big, along the road edge, at the top of the hill. Too shady though for most of the small volunteers.
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| 4/1/12 The third one in the middle is gone, felled by a snowstorm in 2011 |
The two remaining cedars I planted are growing well, way over my head and filling out in 2013. In winter they are a dark bronze, I really don't like the dark color, but they are the only evergreen screening along the road.
There are a few bright blue berries on both remaining trees, but just a very few, hidden among the branches. Nothing like the mass of berries we saw on this Eastern red cedar at Wave Hill:
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| These berries were on a juniper we saw at Wave Hill 10/2/13 |
I hate the apple cedar rust fungus!! It's everywhere on some of the cedars. It causes no harm, but yuk. And it means I can't grow apples or hawthorns or serviceberries nearby or in my yard as the rust does defoliate those types of trees.
Here are the two remaining Eastern red cedars by the road cut in early spring, 2014. They aren't bad plants for a naturalistic planting, and they go well in front of the forsythias in bloom. But they look odd, especially their coloring, next to the other conifers along the road here.
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| 4/28/14 |
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| 4/30/15 -- looking about the same as last April! |
Propagation:
Replant any volunteers
