Here’s a sample from a new list of climate-resilient, underused landscape trees suitable for urban environments, coming soon from University of Minnesota horticulturalists.

Our white cedar trees could grow as tall as 40 to 50 feet, eventually. You often see these trees “limbed up” six feet or so by the local deer population.

Northern White Cedar ‘Tree of Life’. When I first came here, magnificent fragrant bell-shaped eastern white cedars lined the serpentine banks of my brook.

It's a large cluster of gray-colored, dead Atlantic White Cedar trees that make up a " ghost forest." "It's really visually striking, isn't it?" New Jersey State Forester Todd Wyckoff said.