Overview

Introduce impressive height and lush greenery to your landscape with the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae. This remarkable evergreen tree is celebrated for its incredibly fast growth rate, making it an excellent choice for quickly establishing privacy screens, windbreaks, or stately specimen trees. Each live plant is carefully nurtured and shipped in a quart pot, ensuring a healthy start in your garden. The ‘Green Giant’ variety is a hybrid arborvitae, combining the vigor of Thuja plicata (Western Red Cedar) with the hardiness of Thuja standishii (Japanese Arborvitae). This results in a robust, low-maintenance tree that adapts well to various conditions across a wide range of climates. With its dense, rich green foliage that maintains its color throughout the year, the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae offers year-round beauty and structure to any outdoor space.

The Green Giant evergreen is not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional. Its dense growth habit provides excellent sound dampening and acts as a natural barrier against wind and snow. Unlike some other evergreens, it exhibits strong resistance to disease and pests, including deer, making it a reliable and long-lasting addition to your property. Whether you’re looking to define property lines, create a secluded garden room, or simply add majestic vertical interest, this arborvitae delivers outstanding performance and visual impact.

Key Benefits

The Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae offers numerous advantages, making it a top choice for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking a reliable and attractive evergreen solution for their landscape needs.

• Rapid Growth for Instant Privacy: Known for its exceptionally fast growth rate, often reaching 3-5 feet per year, this arborvitae quickly forms a dense, impenetrable screen, providing a fast growing privacy hedge in a short amount of time.
• Low Maintenance & Adaptable: Once established, the ‘Green Giant’ is remarkably easy to care for, requiring minimal pruning and tolerating a wide range of soil types and environmental conditions. It’s a truly resilient Green Giant evergreen.
• Disease and Pest Resistant: This hybrid arborvitae boasts strong natural resistance to common evergreen diseases like bagworms and Phytophthora root rot, as well as being largely deer resistant, ensuring a healthier and more vigorous plant.
• Year-Round Greenery: Its vibrant, deep green foliage remains consistent throughout all seasons, providing continuous visual appeal and structural beauty even in winter, enhancing your landscape’s year-round interest.
• Excellent Windbreak and Sound Barrier: The dense habit of the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae makes it highly effective at blocking wind and reducing noise pollution, creating a more peaceful and comfortable outdoor living space.
• Versatile Landscaping Use: Ideal for creating hedges, screens, property borders, or as a majestic standalone specimen tree, its columnar to pyramidal shape fits well into various garden designs and landscape functions.
• Hardy in Diverse Climates: Thrives across a broad spectrum of temperatures and conditions, making it a reliable choice for gardens in USDA Zone 5 evergreen to 9.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is relatively straightforward, especially once the tree is established. For optimal growth and health, choose a planting site that receives at least 6 hours of full sun per day. While it can tolerate some partial shade, full sun promotes the densest foliage and fastest growth. Ensure the soil is well-draining, as these trees do not thrive in consistently wet conditions. Amend heavy clay soils with organic matter to improve drainage and aeration before planting. Dig a hole twice as wide as the root ball and just as deep, ensuring the top of the root ball is level with or slightly above the surrounding soil.

Initial watering is crucial for establishment. Water deeply and regularly during the first growing season, especially during dry spells, to encourage a strong root system. Once established, the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is quite drought-tolerant, but occasional deep watering during prolonged dry periods will benefit its overall health. Fertilize in early spring with a slow-release granular fertilizer formulated for evergreens, following the product’s instructions. Pruning is generally minimal for this Thuja tree care; light shaping can be done in late winter or early spring to maintain desired size and density. Avoid heavy pruning into old wood, as it may not regenerate.

The Green Giant is remarkably resistant to most pests and diseases. However, monitoring for any signs of stress or unusual leaf discoloration is always a good practice. Ensure good air circulation around the plants, especially if they are planted closely for a fast growing privacy hedge. With proper care, your Thuja Green Giant will quickly grow into a magnificent and resilient feature of your landscape, providing beauty and function for many years, even in a USDA Zone 5 evergreen climate.

Size & Details

Each Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is carefully cultivated and shipped in a quart pot, providing a robust root system ready for transplanting. At the time of shipment, the young tree typically stands between 8-16 inches tall, depending on the growth stage. This fast-growing evergreen is known for its impressive mature size, reaching heights of 30-50 feet and spreading 10-20 feet wide over time. Its growth rate is exceptionally rapid, often adding 3-5 feet in height per year under ideal conditions, making it an excellent choice for a quick privacy solution. The tree develops a dense, conical to pyramidal shape, maintaining a relatively narrow footprint for its height.

This species is a strong, upright grower, forming a natural, uniform shape without extensive pruning. It is shipped as a rooted, young plant, allowing it to acclimate easily to its new environment. Expect this vigorous specimen to establish quickly, especially when planted in well-drained soil and receiving adequate sunlight and water during its initial growth phase. The ‘Green Giant’ is a long-lived tree, providing decades of beauty and utility to your landscape. This Green Giant evergreen will transform your space effectively.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae get? A: The Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is a large evergreen tree that can reach mature heights of 30 to 50 feet and spreads of 10 to 20 feet wide. Its impressive size makes it ideal for substantial privacy screens and stately landscape features.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: This Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is shipped in a quart pot, providing a healthy root system for successful transplanting into your garden or a larger container.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is an outdoor plant, specifically designed for landscaping. It thrives in various outdoor conditions and is hardy in a wide range of USDA zones.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: For optimal growth and dense foliage, the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae requires full sun, meaning at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. It can tolerate some partial shade but may grow less densely.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, the Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is considered easy to care for, especially once established. It is low-maintenance, disease-resistant, and adaptable, making it a good choice for beginners and experienced gardeners alike.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your Green Giant evergreen will arrive as a healthy, live plant in a quart pot, ready for planting. We take great care in packaging to ensure it reaches you in excellent condition.
• Q: When is the best time to plant a Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae? A: The best time to plant is in spring or early fall, allowing the tree to establish its root system before extreme summer heat or winter cold. However, with proper care, it can be planted any time the ground is not frozen.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: This USDA Zone 5 evergreen is highly cold-hardy, thriving in USDA Zones 5 through 9. It is well-suited to survive winters in these regions, maintaining its green foliage all year.
• Q: How fast does it grow to create a fast growing privacy hedge? A: The Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is renowned for its rapid growth, often growing 3 to 5 feet per year under good conditions, making it one of the fastest options for establishing a privacy hedge.
• Q: Is this Thuja tree care difficult? A: No, Thuja tree care is relatively simple. Once established, it requires minimal pruning, occasional watering during dry spells, and an annual feeding with evergreen fertilizer.