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Western red cedar

Thuja plicata

Photo by KarenSaxton
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To conserve water in the fall, moisture loving red cedars, begin to turn brown. An evergreen conifer, the cedar does not drop all its leaves, but rather adds new growth in the spring. The brown foliage will drop when the wind and rain storms of late fall begin

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