It is hard to ID from a photo because so many conifer-type evergreens look alike from a distance. To me, it looks more like one of the many types of arborvitae than anything else because of the random shape. I had a couple of arborvitaes in our backyard in Texas in the 1980s that looked like somewhat smaller versions of the ones in your photo. Sometimes we also will see some eastern red cedars (highly invasive and highly flammable so we've cut down all those that are within 100 yards of our house) with that rounded shape. If you look at the leaves and cones/berries of your trees, you ought to be able to figure out if yours are either eastern red cedar or arborvitae. A lot of the newer cultivars of arborvitae are more pyramidal in shape than yours, which is why I feel like yours are an older cultivar like the ones I had in Texas--if they are, indeed, arborvitaes.

Click on the link below to see how to distinguish between eastern red cedars and arborvitae. I think it is in the last paragraph on the link. If you look at your plants up close and feel like they aren't either one of those, then my suggestion would be to take a photo of your trees, and maybe a small limb and cones or berries if they have them, to a plant nursery (a real nursery, not a garden center at a big box store) and see if one of the nursery employees can ID your trees for you. Eastern red cedars would have berries (at certain times of the year) but arborvitae should have cones, by the way.

Good luck

Dawn

Tips for Identifying Trees

Thanks a lot for the insight Dawn. I will take a closer look at the limb this weekend and stop by a nursery.

You're welcome. When you get an answer, I hope you'll come back here and post what you learned so we all can learn along with you.