Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus Virginiana
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Eastern Red Cedar
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Plant Facts Mature Height | 30 - 60 feet | Mature Spread | 8 - 25 feet | Soil Type | Widely Adaptable | Moisture | Drought, Heat Tolerant | Mature Form | Broad, Conical | Growth Rate | Rapid | Sun Exposure | Full Sun - Partial Sun | Flower Color | Not Showy | Fall Color | Evergreen | Foliage Color | Green | | 3-9 |
The Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus Virginiana, is a small to medium-sized aromatic evergreen tree. Typically, the trunk is straight and the tree has a pointed, dense, conical crown that may be varied or irregular, depending on ecotype or competing vegetation. The fruit, or cone, is berrylike and dark blue. Birds devour the fruit. Eastern Red Cedar trees can grow on a variety of soils. Its deep roots and small leaf surface make it very drought resistant. It is the primary species in most windbreaks. The wood of the Red Cedar is fragrant and is used extensively for furniture. The foliage is bright green to dark green.
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Native Conifer Standout, 9/20/2006 10:54:31 AM
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Reviewer: scotjute
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This is a conifer that is very adaptable, drought-tolerant, and almost care-free. They have a pleasing cone to pyramidal shape when young to mature, and a majestic look when old. Ive gotten over 2 growth/year out of 50% of my trees planted during a drought with once a week watering. Theyre one of the few conifers that can take the wind, drought, heat, bugs, alkaline soil, etc of central Tx. prairie. If you will water once a week when it doesnt rain, these trees will do the rest. They are not tempermental.
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Beautiful little things, 2/22/2009 3:30:43 PM
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Reviewer: vivayoyis
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I ordered and received 15, 12"-18" trees in the fall. The hardest thing, was digging holes in my back yard. The trees were reddish/purple (the color they turn when in extreme cold, dry or fall) and in very good condition. This is the first time I ordered from this nursery, so I was surprised and very pleased by the packaging. I live south of San Antonio, where the ground is anywhere from sandy soft to hard and rocky, the wind blows unbelievably hard and the area always seems to suffer from severe drought. We purchased them as a wind break, which we figure will be in a few years, since they are quite small. They were easy to plant and care for, I didn't have to worry about watering them too often after the first two weeks; they easily survived a winter of harsh winds, fluctuating days of high and low temperatures (25-80 degrees from one week to the next), going from green to purple to red, depending on the weather, and now (last week in Feb), they show bright green budding and up to 1/2 inch growth. For an area, where residents have been asked to ration water, and is mostly bare of trees (thanks to the wind and dryness), they have flourished. Unfortunately, I lost one to a hungry gopher, which ate the main root right out from under it.
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