What a great article Christine I really enjoyed reading about the red cedar tree as it grows in abundance here.

I love the picture, Margaret, look at the red centers! Mostly I love the mountains in the background. What a great picture.

And Christine, one of my favorite topics, the red cedar.
This is a very nice article, very informative. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us.

It's like Margaret says, they grow wild all over Kentucky.

Not long ago I entered the Eastern Red Cedar in the database along with photos of ours. I learned far more from your article about them than I did entering the info. about them. Nice article Christine. Thank you.

Thanks for the great article!

I used to hike in a local park: West Rock in New Haven. Lots of juniper. Every so often, I'd find a fallen branch with some red heartwood and scoop it up for shavings. I was resisting cutting anything off a living tree when I found a woodpile when rangers had cut one down! I came back that night with a bow saw and backpack and stocked up!

Nice article, Christine. Trees and bees and flowers, what could be better.

Thank you Sharon glad you enjoyed the picture. DH took that one for an ad he used to advertise cedar fence posts for sale.

Margaret, you should put that photo in the database to show the red in the middle & leave a little comment.

Hi, thanks everyone, I'm happy to know you enjoyed the article. The red cedar is so useful!

I agree Margaret, please add your great picture to the database (I was looking for such a picture) to show how beautiful the heartwood is!

Christine, wonderful article!!! Thanks for writting....
We have cedar trees and in the summer my longears will walk up against it. I think it must help keep the flies away.
They also like to lay on the southside to keep winds at bay.....

Great article/write-up! I enjoyed reading about something close to my heart.

We've got red cedars in abundance here, too. My daughter's first Christmas tree was a wimpy Charlie-Brown cedar I dug up and brought into the house; it would barely hold any ornaments! I planted it in the front yard and now, with DD turning 18 this coming January, that tree is a good 25 ft tall and 12 ft in diameter (the foliage, not the trunk).

I just held a dead Cedar waxwing in my hand yesterday that had flown into the windows of the house I was working at. Stuck to its feathers was a juniper berry; it looked well-fed, too.

Like certain other trees and plants on this farm, red cedar is amongst the ranks of being seldom (if ever) removed/abused. Like you pointed out, Christine, it holds a bit of reverence, eh?

Thanks for enlightening so many folks with your article!
Shoe

Cedar waxwing

I'm looking forward to seeing them in our cedars as I never saw any CW's at our former home.

I LOVE birds!

Hi Charleen Thank you! hmmm I wonder too if they are keeping the bugs off, animals do have a way of knowing things like that, I think.

and thank you, Shoe, I bet your 25' Christmas tree looks pretty with some lights? Yes indeed, the red cedar is revered in this heart too, and hope to see my little tree grow to 25' and beyond!

Ann, I hope you see some waxwings- I have a feeling you will!

Picture added by popular request

Forgot all about a comment though sorry Ann.

You can go back & make a comment in the comment section & say the comment is about your photo. No problem.

OK I added the comment also.

Now I'm off to knit some more.

Enjoyed your article about the red cedar, Christine. Our cedars (Ash junipers) are not held in such high esteem here. They give us allergies and take water from other natives plants!

I also learned something I didn't know about the connection of the red cedar and the name Baton Rouge. Sieur d'Iberville discovered my hometown of Biloxi, MS on his way to Baton Rouge.

Great article!

Thank you Bubbles! I find the history so interesting too!

Thank you for reading, Justin!