Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens The double-flowered form is the

The double-flowered form is the cultivated elaboration

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

and other shade lovers

upright grace carried down from high ground

in a native plant garden

Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens' Brookgreen Gardens The double-flowered form is theA 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,