Green Giant Arborvitae Live Plant – 4 inch Container, 12 inches Tall, Outdoor Tree

Overview

Transform your outdoor space with the majestic Green Giant Arborvitae live plant. This robust and rapidly growing evergreen is an exceptional choice for creating natural privacy screens, windbreaks, or simply adding a stately presence to your landscape. Known botanically as Thuja ‘Green Giant’, this hybrid arborvitae combines the best characteristics of its parent trees, offering impressive growth rates and a dense, conical form. Each Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is carefully cultivated and shipped in a 4-inch container, ready for planting, ensuring a healthy start for your garden project. With its vibrant green foliage that retains its color through winter, the Thuja Green Giant tree provides year-round beauty and structure. It’s a low-maintenance solution for those seeking a dramatic impact with minimal effort, quickly establishing itself to provide privacy and aesthetic appeal.

The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is celebrated for its vigorous growth, often adding 3-4 feet in height per year under optimal conditions. This makes it a popular choice for homeowners and landscapers looking for a quick solution to screening unwanted views or defining property lines. Its adaptability to a wide range of soil types and resilience to various environmental conditions further enhance its appeal. As a live plant, it offers the immediate satisfaction of adding greenery to your garden, setting the foundation for a magnificent, mature tree that will stand tall and proud for decades.

Key Benefits

The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant offers a multitude of advantages that make it a standout choice for various landscaping needs. Its impressive attributes contribute to both the aesthetic and functional value of any outdoor area.

• Rapid Growth Rate: Experience quick establishment and significant height gain, with trees growing 3-4 feet per year in favorable conditions. This makes it an ideal option for creating a fast growing evergreen privacy screen in a relatively short period.
• Excellent Privacy Screening: Develop dense, tall hedges that provide effective visual and sound barriers. This characteristic makes the Green Giant Arborvitae live plant perfect as a privacy hedge plant, offering seclusion and tranquility to your yard.
• All-Season Appeal: Enjoy lush, deep green foliage that maintains its color even during the coldest winter months. Unlike some evergreens, the Thuja Green Giant tree does not yellow in winter, ensuring continuous beauty.
• Low Maintenance: Once established, these trees are remarkably resilient and require minimal care, tolerating a wide range of soil types and some dry conditions. This makes them a hassle-free addition to any garden.
• Adaptable to Various Soils: Thrives in diverse soil conditions, from clay to sandy, as long as there is adequate drainage. This versatility simplifies planting and ensures successful growth in many landscapes.
• Pest and Disease Resistant: Generally resistant to many common pests and diseases, reducing the need for frequent treatments and maintenance. This contributes to the overall health and longevity of your outdoor screening plant.
• Windbreak Protection: Its dense growth habit makes it an effective windbreak, protecting other plants and structures from strong winds, while also providing habitat for local wildlife.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is relatively straightforward, making it an excellent choice for both novice and experienced gardeners. These trees prefer full sun to partial shade, ideally receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal growth. While they can tolerate some shade, more sun generally leads to denser foliage and faster growth. When planting, ensure the hole is twice as wide as the root ball and just as deep. Backfill with the original soil, ensuring the top of the root ball is level with the ground. Proper initial watering is crucial to help the plant establish its roots.

The Thuja Green Giant tree is adaptable to a wide range of soil types, but it thrives best in well-draining soil. Avoid planting in areas where water tends to collect, as this can lead to root rot. Regular watering is important during the first year of establishment, especially during dry spells. Once mature, these trees are quite drought-tolerant, though supplemental watering during prolonged dry periods will benefit their health and vigor. Fertilize in early spring with a balanced, slow-release granular fertilizer formulated for evergreens. Follow the product instructions carefully to avoid over-fertilization.

Pruning is generally not required to maintain the natural pyramidal shape of your privacy hedge plant. However, light trimming can be done in late winter or early spring to shape the plant or remove any dead or damaged branches. For creating a dense hedge, plant your outdoor screening plant 5-6 feet apart. This spacing allows ample room for growth while ensuring the plants will eventually grow together to form a solid green wall. Monitor for any signs of stress or pests, though these trees are generally robust. With proper care, your fast growing evergreen will flourish, providing beauty and function for many years.

Size & Details

This offering includes one Green Giant Arborvitae live plant, which arrives rooted in a 4-inch nursery container. Each plant stands approximately 12 inches in height from the top of the soil, ready for immediate transplanting into your garden. At maturity, the Thuja Green Giant tree can reach an impressive height of 40-60 feet with a spread of 12-18 feet, forming a dense, narrow, pyramidal habit. This rapid-growing evergreen can add 3-4 feet of height per year under ideal conditions, quickly establishing itself as a prominent feature in your landscape. Planting instructions are included with your purchase, guiding you through the successful establishment of your new tree.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant can reach an impressive mature height of 40-60 feet with a spread of 12-18 feet, providing a substantial presence in your landscape. It’s known for being a fast growing evergreen, adding significant height each year.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: Each Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is shipped in a 4-inch nursery container, and the plant itself is approximately 12 inches tall. This size is ideal for establishing a healthy root system before planting in the ground.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Thuja Green Giant tree is an outdoor plant, perfectly suited for landscaping, creating privacy screens, and adding structure to gardens. It is not intended for indoor cultivation.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This privacy hedge plant thrives in full sun to partial shade, ideally receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. More sunlight generally leads to denser foliage and faster growth.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, the Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is considered low-maintenance once established. It tolerates a wide range of soil types and some dry conditions, making it a good choice for various gardeners.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your plant will arrive rooted in its 4-inch pot, carefully packaged to ensure it reaches you in healthy, live condition, ready for planting.
• Q: When is the best time to plant? A: The best time to plant your outdoor screening plant is in the spring or fall, allowing it to establish its root system before extreme summer heat or winter cold.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: The Green Giant Arborvitae live plant is very cold-hardy, typically thriving in USDA Hardiness Zones 5-8. Its foliage retains its green color throughout the winter.
• Q: How far apart should I plant them for a hedge? A: For a dense privacy hedge, plant your Thuja Green Giant tree plants 5-6 feet apart. This spacing allows them to grow together into a solid, impenetrable screen.
• Q: Does it have any specific soil requirements? A: While adaptable, the Green Giant Arborvitae live plant prefers well-draining soil. It can tolerate various soil types, but good drainage is key to preventing root issues.