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Overgrown Evergreens
Arborvitae/White Cedar (Thuja)
You’ll be hard pressed to find a selection of our native arborvitae that matures in that ideal range of three to four feet
tall and wide for an evergreen shrub. However, several of the larger varieties have potential as moderately-sized screening
plants. I’ve always been particularly impressed with the cultivars `Emerald,’ `Holmstrup,’ and `Techny,’ for example. They
grow relatively quickly and fill out nicely without shearing as long as they’re grown in full sun - and providing that you
don’t have a herd of deer camping out in your backyard as they love arborvitae!
- American arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis)
- Six to twelve inches per year
- Fifty to seventy feet tall and twenty to thirty feet wide
- `Golden Globe' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Golden Globe')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Six to eight feet tall and eight to ten feet wide
- `Hetz Midget' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Hetz Midget')
- Three to six inches per year
- Three to five feet tall and six to eight feet wide
- `Holmstrup' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Holmstrup')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Ten feet tall and eight to ten feet wide
- `Nigra' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Nigra')
- Six to twelve inches per year
- Twenty to thirty feet tall and ten to fifteen feet wide
- `Rheingold' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Rheingold')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Eight to twelve feet tall and eight to twelve feet wide
- `Emerald' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Smaragd')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Twelve to fifteen feet tall and four to six feet wide
- `Techny' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Techny')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Twelve to fifteen feet tall and ten to twelve feet wide
- `Woodward' arborvitae
- (Thuja occidentalis `Woodwardii')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Eight to ten feet tall and fifteen to twenty feet wide