| Why We Like the Green Giant Arborvita(e) So Much | | | | growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per |
| Our farm, Highland Hill Farm, is located in the solid clay | | | | year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita |
| soils so common to Doylestown, Bucks County Pa. | | | | are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil |
| These soils are similar to those found in areas where | | | | preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection |
| many of of customers are located. We therefore like | | | | from wind, at lest when young. |
| plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather | | | | The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an |
| impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the | | | | aesthetically fine form. It's conical, being narrow to |
| arborvitae, the Green Giant, the Western Redcedar | | | | broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in |
| Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite. | | | | height in southeastyern Pennsylvania. The width at the |
| Here is why: | | | | base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. |
| The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita | | | | The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage. |
| tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That's where | | | | Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. They |
| extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate | | | | keep their foliage color year 'round, great for |
| level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), | | | | brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the |
| but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees | | | | ground. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn |
| BELOW zero (zone 5). | | | | rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast |
| Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid | | | | with the needle leaves. |