Green Giant Arborvitae Live Plant – 50 Count, 3-inch Pots, 6-inch Height

Overview

Discover the exceptional beauty and utility of the Green Giant Arborvitae live plant, a highly sought-after evergreen for homeowners and landscapers alike. This offering includes 50 individual Green Giant Arborvitae live plant specimens, each carefully rooted in 3-inch containers and standing approximately 6 inches in height. The ‘Green Giant’ (Thuja plicata ‘Green Giant’) is a hybrid evergreen known for its remarkable vigor and elegant, pyramidal form. It combines the hardiness of Western Red Cedar with the disease resistance of Japanese Thuja, resulting in a robust and adaptable tree. Perfect for creating a magnificent privacy screen, a stately avenue planting, or a windbreak, these plants mature into impressive specimens, reaching heights of 40-60 feet with a spread of 12-18 feet. Their dense foliage provides year-round interest and excellent cover, making them an invaluable addition to any large landscape project.

The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is celebrated for its rapid growth rate, often adding 3-4 feet in height per year in favorable conditions. This makes it an ideal choice for those looking to establish a significant living barrier quickly. Unlike some other evergreens, its foliage retains a vibrant green color even through the winter months, ensuring consistent visual appeal. The small, upright, light brown cones add subtle texture without being overly conspicuous. Whether you’re aiming for a formal hedge or a naturalistic screen, these plants offer both aesthetic appeal and practical benefits, delivering a lush, green backdrop to your garden.

Key Benefits

The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant offers a multitude of advantages for your landscape, combining rapid growth with enduring beauty and functionality. These robust evergreens are an excellent investment for enhancing property value and privacy.

• Rapid Growth for Instant Impact: Known for their impressive growth rate of 3-4 feet per year, these plants quickly establish a dense screen, providing privacy and wind protection much faster than many other evergreen options. This makes them a top choice for a fast growing privacy hedge.
• Year-Round Greenery: The rich, vibrant green foliage of the Green Giant Arborvitae remains consistent throughout all seasons, providing continuous visual appeal and an evergreen backdrop, even in winter. This solid color retention is a key advantage over other arborvitae varieties.
• Exceptional Hardiness and Adaptability: This Thuja variety is remarkably resilient, tolerating a wide range of soil types, including some dry conditions once established. It thrives in full sun to partial shade, making it a versatile choice for various garden settings.
• Effective Privacy and Noise Barrier: When planted 5-6 feet apart, these trees form an incredibly dense, tall screen that effectively blocks unwanted views and reduces noise pollution, creating a tranquil outdoor sanctuary. Creating a strong barrier is a primary benefit of the Green Giant Arborvitae live plant.
• Low Maintenance Evergreen: Once established, the Thuja Green Giant requires minimal maintenance. It is generally pest and disease resistant, reducing the need for constant intervention and allowing you more time to enjoy your garden.
• Wildlife Habitat: The dense foliage provides excellent shelter and nesting sites for various bird species, contributing to local biodiversity and attracting beneficial wildlife to your yard.
• Elegant Pyramidal Form: Its naturally dense, narrow, pyramidal habit lends a formal and stately appearance to the landscape, requiring little to no pruning to maintain its attractive shape.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is relatively straightforward, making it an excellent choice for both experienced gardeners and those new to landscaping. These trees are known for their resilience, but providing optimal conditions will ensure vigorous growth and a healthy, dense hedge. They thrive in locations that receive full sun to partial shade, ideally at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. While they can tolerate some shade, more sun generally leads to faster, denser growth. When planting, ensure the root ball is level with the ground and water thoroughly. For a fast growing privacy hedge, proper initial care is crucial.

These arborvitae are adaptable to a wide range of soil types, but prefer well-draining soil. Avoid areas where water tends to collect, as soggy roots can lead to problems. If your soil is heavy clay, amend it with organic matter to improve drainage. Consistent watering is essential during the establishment phase, typically the first year after planting. Water deeply 2-3 times a week, ensuring the soil remains moist but not waterlogged. Once established, they exhibit good drought tolerance but will benefit from supplemental watering during prolonged dry spells. Fertilize in early spring with a balanced, slow-release granular fertilizer formulated for evergreens, following package instructions. The arborvitae care routine is minimal once established.

The Thuja Green Giant is hardy in USDA zones 5-9, making it suitable for a broad range of climates. While generally pest and disease resistant, keep an eye out for bagworms or spider mites, especially in dry conditions. Promptly address any infestations with appropriate horticultural oil or insecticide. Pruning is rarely necessary to maintain their natural pyramidal shape, but you can trim them lightly in late winter or early spring to control size or shape if desired. Avoid heavy pruning into old wood, as new growth may not emerge. Proper arborvitae care will ensure these trees provide a beautiful and effective screen for many years.

Size & Details

This offering includes 50 individual Green Giant Arborvitae live plant specimens, each provided in a 3-inch container. At the time of shipment, these young plants stand approximately 6 inches tall, ready for planting and establishment in your garden. The Thuja Green Giant is renowned for its impressive mature size, typically reaching a height of 40-60 feet with a spread of 12-18 feet. Its vigorous growth habit allows for rapid landscape transformation, with an average growth rate of 3-4 feet per year under ideal conditions. This makes it an excellent choice for quickly establishing a substantial fast growing privacy hedge or windbreak.

The plants are shipped as rooted specimens, ensuring a strong start in their new environment. Their dense, narrow, pyramidal habit contributes to their effectiveness as a screening plant. When used for screening, it is recommended to plant them 5-6 feet apart to allow for proper air circulation and growth while ensuring a solid, continuous barrier. The foliage of the evergreen screening plants retains its vibrant green color throughout the year, providing consistent aesthetic appeal. Expect these trees to develop into magnificent, long-lived features of your landscape, offering both beauty and practical benefits for decades.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big do these Green Giant Arborvitae get at maturity? A: The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is known for its impressive mature size, typically reaching heights of 40-60 feet with a spread of 12-18 feet. This makes them ideal for creating tall, dense privacy screens.
• Q: What size pots do these plants come in and how tall are they? A: Each order includes 50 individual Green Giant Arborvitae plants, each rooted in a 3-inch container. At the time of shipment, they stand approximately 6 inches in height, ready for planting.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? How much sunlight does it need? A: The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is an outdoor tree. It thrives in full sun to partial shade, meaning it needs at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day for optimal growth and density.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? Is it good for beginners? A: Yes, the Thuja Green Giant is considered relatively easy to care for, especially once established. It’s a robust and adaptable evergreen, making it a good choice for beginners looking for a low-maintenance privacy solution.
• Q: What condition will the plants arrive in when shipped? A: The plants are shipped as healthy, rooted specimens in their 3-inch pots. They are carefully packaged to ensure they arrive in good condition, ready for planting.
• Q: How long until these plants form a dense screen? A: Due to their rapid growth rate of 3-4 feet per year, you can expect these fast growing privacy hedge plants to form a dense screen within a few years, depending on initial size and growing conditions.
• Q: What’s the best time to plant the Green Giant Arborvitae? A: While they can be planted throughout the growing season, spring or early fall is generally the best time to plant Green Giant Arborvitae. This allows the roots to establish before extreme summer heat or winter cold.
• Q: Will these evergreen screening plants survive winter in my zone? A: The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is hardy in USDA Zones 5-9. If your area falls within these zones, they will typically survive winter without special protection.