America's Choice Privacy Tree

Transform your outdoor space with Thuja Green Giant!

Thuja Green Giant creates fast, reliable privacy that transforms your landscape in just a few seasons. Its rapid growth of 3-4 feet per year creates dense, year-round screening that blocks unwanted views and noise. The narrow columnar shape maximizes privacy while minimizing space requirements—perfect for tight yards. Hardy across most climates, it requires minimal maintenance once established and resists common diseases. Whether shielding your home from neighbors or creating a natural windbreak, Thuja Green Giant delivers the privacy and beauty you want without the fuss.

Thuja Green Giant is America's choice privacy tree, prized for its impressive height and narrow columnar form. This hybrid variety reaches 30-40 feet tall while maintaining a compact 9-10 foot width, making it ideal for privacy screens, windbreaks, and landscape borders. Known for its vibrant green foliage that holds its color year-round, the Green Giant thrives in full sun to partial shade and adapts well to various soil conditions. Hardy and low-maintenance, it resists common pests and diseases while providing excellent screening and visual interest to any property.

Homeowners appreciate its low-maintenance nature, resistance to common pests and diseases, and ability to create a natural privacy barrier faster than alternatives. Whether you're shielding your property from neighbors or wind, the Thuja Green Giant delivers proven results that have made it the preferred privacy solution for countless satisfied gardeners.

Thuja Green Giant History

Thuja Green Giant is a hybrid arborvitae cultivar that has become one of the most popular evergreen screening plants in North America. Developed in the 1960s through careful breeding, this vigorous variety combines the best traits of its parent species to create a fast-growing, disease-resistant tree. Known for its narrow, columnar form and vibrant green foliage that maintains color year-round, Thuja Green Giant was specifically engineered to thrive in diverse climates.

It grows rapidly—up to 3 feet per year under ideal conditions—making it an excellent choice for privacy hedges, windbreaks, and landscape borders. The tree's natural pyramidal shape requires minimal pruning, and its dense branching provides excellent coverage from ground level upward. This cultivar gained widespread recognition for its superior performance compared to traditional arborvitae varieties. It demonstrates exceptional tolerance to both cold winters and hot summers, resists common pests and diseases that plague other evergreens, and adapts well to various soil types.

Thuja Green Giant has earned its place as a landscape staple, trusted by homeowners and professionals alike for reliable, attractive screening solutions that deliver results season after season.

Why Plant Thuja Green Giant

• Fast Growth Rate:
  It can grow an impressive 3 to 5 feet per year once established, making it a top choice for creating privacy.
• Mature Size:
  Expect a mature height of 30 to 35 feet and a spread of 9 to 10 feet. Be sure to account for this size when planting.
• Appearance:
  It has a natural pyramidal to conical shape with dense, rich green, scale-like foliage that may slightly darken or bronze in the winter.
• Low Maintenance:
  Once established, it's relatively low-maintenance, often requiring little to no pruning to maintain its attractive shape.

• Adaptability:
  It tolerates a wide range of soils (clay, loam, sandy, acidic, alkaline) and can grow in full sun to partial shade, though it prefers full sun. It also has good drought tolerance once established.
  
• Hardiness:
  It's generally hardy in USDA Zones 5-9, withstanding cold winters.
  
• Deer Resistance:
  It exhibits good resistance to deer browsing, making it a reliable choice in areas with deer pressure.
• Other Benefits:
  It can act as a windbreak and help to reduce noise. It also provides nesting sites and cover for birds and small animals.

Caring for Thuja Green Giant

• Planting:
  Choose a location with well-drained soil. Space trees appropriately based on your desired outcome (closer for a dense hedge, further apart for individual specimens or a less dense screen). For a tight hedge, planting 5 to 6 feet apart is often recommended.
• Watering:
  Keep the soil consistently moist, especially during the establishment period (the first year or two) and during dry spells. Avoid overwatering, which can lead to root rot. Once established, it is drought-tolerant but will appreciate occasional watering during prolonged dry periods.
• Mulching:
  Apply a layer of organic mulch around the base of the trees to help retain soil moisture, regulate temperature, and suppress weeds.
• Fertilizing:
  Generally, Green Giant Arborvitae doesn't require heavy fertilization. However, you can apply a balanced, slow-release evergreen fertilizer in the spring if needed, following the manufacturer's instructions.

• Pruning:
  Minimal pruning is usually required. Remove any dead, damaged, or diseased branches as needed. If you want to maintain a specific shape or height for a hedge, prune lightly once a year after the final frost, ideally in the fall. Avoid heavy pruning, as it can affect the tree's natural form.
  

Our workhorse privacy tree: These robust container trees are grown with the highest standard of care and have everything that gives Green Giants their reputation as the most preferred privacy tree available. Beautiful, low-maintenance, and fast-growing, these trees are suitable for all applications, but their lower cost makes them perfect for property lines, blocking views, and windbreaks where the size and quantity are more primary considerations.

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Our trees are cultivated with the upmost attention to quality, embodying the attributes that have established Thuja Green Giants as the leading choice for privacy trees. These trees are not only aesthetically pleasing and low-maintenance but also exhibit rapid growth. They are ideal for various uses, particularly due to their affordability, making them an excellent option for property boundaries, obscuring views, and creating windbreaks where size and quantity are of greater importance. We have Thuja Green Giant for sale at very reasonable prices.

When you choose to purchase from Thuja Gardens, you can be confident that you are acquiring the finest quality trees available on the market. We do not source our products from other nurseries; instead, we cultivate the trees we offer, allowing us to maintain control over both quality and pricing. 

Our approach is traditional; we still respond to phone inquiries and strive to address your questions thoroughly.

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