Eastern Red Cedar
Famous for it’s rot-resistant and fragrant red lumber, Eastern Red Cedar also provides a thick green privacy screen that bears large crops of powdery blue berries. Wild birds feast on the loaded branches, which can also be snipped off for chickens or woven into wreaths and decorations throughout the winter! The berries are also used to season meats and flavor gin. This tough tree will grow where other trees can’t. Cedars will grow well even on dry, rocky outcroppings and windy, salty coastal areas. Deer don’t browse on the greenery much, unlike it’s cousin, the commonly planted (and expensive!) Arborvitaea, also called deer candy. If you’re having trouble establishing a hedge of Arborvitaea but want a similar look, Red Cedars are much more forgiving, with the added benefit of winter berries! If you grow apples, make sure to plant apple varieties resistant to a shared fungus called cedar-apple rust. Some great resistant varieties are Grimes’ Golden, Roxbury Russet, Liberty, Macs, Baldwin and many more!
Zones 2-9
Ships as a bare root tree (the trees are dormant and their needles may appear purple-ish. This is normal and they will green up with the weather!)
Famous for it’s rot-resistant and fragrant red lumber, Eastern Red Cedar also provides a thick green privacy screen that bears large crops of powdery blue berries. Wild birds feast on the loaded branches, which can also be snipped off for chickens or woven into wreaths and decorations throughout the winter! The berries are also used to season meats and flavor gin. This tough tree will grow where other trees can’t. Cedars will grow well even on dry, rocky outcroppings and windy, salty coastal areas. Deer don’t browse on the greenery much, unlike it’s cousin, the commonly planted (and expensive!) Arborvitaea, also called deer candy. If you’re having trouble establishing a hedge of Arborvitaea but want a similar look, Red Cedars are much more forgiving, with the added benefit of winter berries! If you grow apples, make sure to plant apple varieties resistant to a shared fungus called cedar-apple rust. Some great resistant varieties are Grimes’ Golden, Roxbury Russet, Liberty, Macs, Baldwin and many more!
Zones 2-9
Ships as a bare root tree (the trees are dormant and their needles may appear purple-ish. This is normal and they will green up with the weather!)
Famous for it’s rot-resistant and fragrant red lumber, Eastern Red Cedar also provides a thick green privacy screen that bears large crops of powdery blue berries. Wild birds feast on the loaded branches, which can also be snipped off for chickens or woven into wreaths and decorations throughout the winter! The berries are also used to season meats and flavor gin. This tough tree will grow where other trees can’t. Cedars will grow well even on dry, rocky outcroppings and windy, salty coastal areas. Deer don’t browse on the greenery much, unlike it’s cousin, the commonly planted (and expensive!) Arborvitaea, also called deer candy. If you’re having trouble establishing a hedge of Arborvitaea but want a similar look, Red Cedars are much more forgiving, with the added benefit of winter berries! If you grow apples, make sure to plant apple varieties resistant to a shared fungus called cedar-apple rust. Some great resistant varieties are Grimes’ Golden, Roxbury Russet, Liberty, Macs, Baldwin and many more!
Zones 2-9
Ships as a bare root tree (the trees are dormant and their needles may appear purple-ish. This is normal and they will green up with the weather!)