Evergreen ID

[bdwc]

Hey Folks, I have several small evergreen trees sprouting up in my flower beds, and wondering if someone can help me identify them. I transplanted a couple of them into pots.

 

[ropensaddle]

Hey Folks, I have several small evergreen trees sprouting up in my flower beds, and wondering if someone can help me identify them. I transplanted a couple of them into pots.View attachment 596732

My guess is spruce

 

[bdwc]

Thanks, ropensaddle! I was wondering about juniper or cedar as well. I have no idea...

 

[Del_]

Cedar. Juniperus virginiana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_virginiana

 

[bdwc]

Thanks, Del_!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Eastern Red cedar?

 

[ATH]

Yep.... Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)

 

[ropensaddle]

Yep.... Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)

Lol I'm terrible at the picture stuff. I have red cedar everywhere too, lol so no excuses.

 

[bdwc]

Thank you, all!

 

[JeffGu]

Now you have a nice, potted weed. Plant them around the yard, and you'll have a lifelong hobby... digging them back up while swearing profusely.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Now you have a nice, potted weed. Plant them around the yard, and you'll have a lifelong hobby... digging them back up while swearing profusely.

For me it was the "pretty little mimosa tree" I dug up from somewhere and planted in my yard. BIG MISTAKE.
You can't kill the darn things and they multiply profusely.

 

[JeffGu]

Yeah, they are actually considered a noxious weed in agricultural states like this one.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Yeah, they are actually considered a noxious weed in agricultural states like this one.

https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/
Red cedar is on the list. So is Rose of Sharon - another planting mistake I made... and the dreaded privet which is another never ending fight to get rid of.

 

[ropensaddle]

https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/
Red cedar is on the list. So is Rose of Sharon - another planting mistake I made... and the dreaded privet which is another never ending fight to get rid of.

Try Bamboo

 

[JeffGu]

Oh, gawd... my father tried growing that in the back yard back in the early 70's and when he finally found a variety that didn't die as soon as fall arrived... it took over the backyard. I spent most of a summer trying to get rid of it all with a roto-tiller when nothing else seemed to faze it. And, this was in Nebraska, for crying out loud. I hate to think of the nightmare a more suitable climate might have produced.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Try Bamboo

I have considered it.

Actually, there is a guy I used to buy blueberries from who lives close by who had it growing behind his house. It was HUGE and looked gorgeous... he had a path from the driveway to the house and it was like walking through a rain forest. Some of it was as big around as my arm. He also had a hot tub in a gazebo back there too.
It's a tempting thought... but one I have been able to resist so far.

 

[ropensaddle]

Oh, gawd... my father tried growing that in the back yard back in the early 70's and when he finally found a variety that didn't die as soon as fall arrived... it took over the backyard. I spent most of a summer trying to get rid of it all with a roto-tiller when nothing else seemed to faze it. And, this was in Nebraska, for crying out loud. I hate to think of the nightmare a more suitable climate might have produced.

"I contracted removal once" Did I mention once

 

[JeffGu]

I bet that stuff spreads like fire, down where you're at.

 

[ropensaddle]

I bet that stuff spreads like fire, down where you're at.

With a tanker of hexene added to the fire lol