Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens Few fruits carry the weight

Few fruits carry the weight of centuries quite like the common fig

and native phlox for a layered spring show

graceful native shrub of the eastern United States that grows wild along pond edges

acidic and humus-rich soil kept moist but well-drained

upright grace carried down from high ground

Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens Few fruits carry the weightA Victorian era English selection of one of the great trees of North America. The species, Thuja plicata, the western red cedar, is the dominant conifer of the Pacific Northwest coastal rainforest, the tree that towers 150 to 200 feet above the forest floor in old growth stands of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California, with individual specimens documented at over a thousand years old. To the Coast Salish, Haida, Tlingit,