Thuja emerald green vs. thuja green giant

11 years ago

i am new to this website. i searched all over the web, but what is exactly the difference between emerald green and green giant? please let me know.

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Embothrium
11 years ago
"Emerald Green" is a translation into English of the cultivar name 'Smaragd' for a highly popular dense- and slow-growing Danish selection of Thuja occidentalis. It produces a small tree, somewhat variable in outline but often pointed and nearly columnar. 'Green Giant' is an eventually large tree-sized hybrid cultivar derived from T. plicata x T. standishii. It can develop fairly rapidly under suitable conditions. Its density and outline are more like those of a wild arborvitae species. It has been promoted as a replacement for the fast- and tall-growing Leyland cypress, in regions where that has disease problems.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
searched the whole web.. eh???

after ten years.. my GG is 20 feet tall ... from a 4 incher planted ...

after ten years.. my smargard.. emerald green ... is 6 feet tall from a 4 footer planted ...

try googling green giant for it latin name ... and then add:

annual growth rate...

and then google for emerald green latin.. and add the same.. and you should find.. one grows 2 to 5 feet per year.. and the other 6 inches or so ..... depending on your climate..

you better have a pretty big yard for GG's ...

and on either.. INSURE you buy single leader plants ...

welcome to GW.. glad to help .. come back often ....

ken

ps: the latin names are VERY IMPORTANT.. its where you start all searching .... trust me.. i fought them for years.. lol ...
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