Occasionally a sapling would fall over and root itself, only to be eaten by ... Research indicates that we lose almost all eastern white cedar saplings by the time they are 12-13 years old ...

Also known as eastern white cedar, this tree grows throughout the Northeast ... One of the cedar’s ways is wet, its shallow roots grasping the edges of dark streams and lake shores, sinking into soggy ...

It goes by the common names of Eastern arborvitae, American arborvitae and white cedar. It bears green ... I'd feed the plants once a year, probably with a root feeder or fertilizer spikes.