They make excellent garden plants.
Green giant arborvitae thuja plicata green giant.
The identity of the exceptional cloneas the t.
Thuja standishii plicata green giant is a very fast growing selection of hybrid arborvitae.
Forming a majestic exclamation point in the landscape it is excellent as a specimen plant and for.
The name thuja green giant was selected to identify and promote this clone.
Standishii that is often promoted as a.
Sizes range from dwarf cultivars to large trees.
Typical rate of growth in most areas is up to 5 feet 1 6 m per year resulting in a large tree 50 feet 15 m tall by 5 feet 2 m wide after 10 years in the landscape.
Thuja is a genus of 6 species of coniferous evergreen trees from east asia and north america.
Genus name is the greek name for a kind of juniper juniperus green giant is a fast growing arborvitae hybrid cultivar t.
Tall and narrow thuja standishii plicata green giant arborvitae is a majestic evergreen tree of conical to pyramidal habit with sprays of rich glossy green foliage year round.
Fast growing up to 5 ft.
Per year 150 cm it is regarded as a disease free substitute for leland cypress.
This tall narrow tree makes an excellent privacy screen or specimen planting.
Its natural pyramidal to conical form boasts dense rich green foliage that darkens or bronzes slightly in the winter.
While different suppliers may refer to this tree as arborvitae green giant or thuja green giant they are the same species.
Standishii x plicata hybrid was resolved by susan martin usna kim trip new york botanic garden and robert marquard holden arboretum through extensive records searches nursery inspections and isozyme analysis.