Eastern Red Cedar
There are a few fully grown specimens in the forested section, and several up on top of the property in the fields where I think the previous owners had left them as shade an ornamental since they are quite old. While many young ones come up in the forested area, none seem to make it any more, too much shade. However, over in the northeast field, they are coming up like gang busters. Probably need to make a harvest plan soon.
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In 2006 the east woods and east field were kept more or less as mowed as the big field. The row of leafless black locust in the back is the east border woods, including the small eastern red cedar to the right. In front of the split cedar in the middle is a spruce that bushed out very nicely, but didn't make it much bigger than this and died a few years later.
This is the tallest and straighest one on the property, in fact that I've ever seen.
