We planted this mail-order tree, from Nearly Native Nursery, in May 2014.
It has grown steadily, doubling its height in two years, and has not suffered from many issues. The only attention point was that after removing the original stakes in 2015, I noticed that it still behaved like a ball-and-socket joint when the wind blew (like the Tulip Tree and Southern Magnolia), indicating that it may not have rooted out very strongly from its planting hole. I had to re-stake it, but otherwise it seemed perfectly healthy. I removed the stakes again end of 2016. In the spring of 2016 it produced a crop of berries, indicating that it is a female. On March 11th 2017, it was absolutely smothered in small beginnings of berries. In early June 2019, I discovered this tree looking a little sparse and realized that it was covered in 100+ bag-worms. Brought out a ladder and tried to pick them off one by one, but a thunderstorm with strong winds came and stopped me - the next day rampant mosquitoes stopped me. Two days later the rain had stopped and I sprayed.
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Eastern Red Cedar (early July 2021)
Eastern Red Cedar (early July 2020)
Eastern Red Cedar (end of June 2019)
Eastern Red Cedar (July 2018)
Eastern Red Cedar (July 2017)
Eastern Red Cedar (July 2016)
Eastern Red Cedar (2014)
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