Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens and native phlox for a

and native phlox for a layered spring show

The double-flowered form is the cultivated elaboration

He asks for almost nothing in return: full sun

the foliage is reliably passed over by deer

Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens and native phlox for aA 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,