three-lobed-leaved frame two to four feet tall
graceful native shrub of the eastern United States that grows wild along pond edges
Few fruits carry the weight of centuries quite like the common fig
He asks for almost nothing in return: full sun
acidic and humus-rich soil kept moist but well-drained
Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens three-lobed-leaved frame two to fourA 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,