Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Among the conifers we can grow in the south is the old-fashioned Deodora cedar. Many years ago, my husband painted a portrait for Edna Watson in Ridge Springs. When he visited, she had a branch from this distinctly horizontally branched tree suspended over her dining room table as a space-saving Christmas tree – her old house had high ceilings and their was plenty of room for the branch and ornaments hanging from it. Deodora cedars are common in old plantings; we had three in our yard when we moved into our “new” old house – built by the Fairy family in the 1880’s. Since then, they’ve all died as this tree is native to the Himalayan mountains, but it does grow for at least a generation in our southern climate and there are many beautiful new cultivars from which to choose.
A Cedar That Can Thrive in the South
