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Where can I purchase tall Thuja Green Giants?
Comments (2)Fairly close to you. BOTANY SHOP GARDEN CENTER : Green Giants : Green Giant Gallery : Butterfly Bush : Red Maples : Endless Summer Hydrangea : : Knockout Roses : American Elm : More Trees & Shrubs : About Us : Links : WE SHIP AND PLANT ALL SUMMER-JUST ADD WATER Click here for planting instructions THUJA "GREEN GIANT" CONIFER click picture for more pictures A Fast Growing Tree BUY HERE Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment Thuja Green Giant is becoming more and more popular among landscapers, growers, and homeowners alike. This hardy, fast growing, conifer makes a perfect privacy screen in just a few short years. Green Giant will grow from 3 to 5 feet per year and will eventually grow to 50 feet or more with a fairly narrow spread. The color is a deep lustrous green and is pleasantly fragrant. Green Giant will grow in a wide range of soils in zones 5 to 8 and prefers a deep well drained fertile soil although it adapts well to frequently saturated clay soils. This is a tough tree and will not easily suffer damage from high wind or heavy ice and snow loads. Green Giant is drought tolerant after it is well established, exhibits no significant pest or disease problems, is deer and bagworm resistant and is hardy to -25F. This new USDA US National Arboretum release as Green Giant has been evaluated since 1967 and will become the outstanding alternative screening-evergreen to the disease prone Leyland Cypress in the south and to the Hemlocks that are dying throughout New England. Click here for more information. Plant 5 to 6 feet apart for a really fast privacy screen, otherwise 10-12 feet apart. Green Giant can be trimmed to any height and width. Click here for comparison and here for links to other articles on Green Giant. Click here to view plants. Click here for planting dates and instructions and click here for shipping dates and zones. We comply with stringent phyto-sanitation rules and can ship Green Giants to the 48 contiguous states all year. Click here to view the National Arboretum Fact Sheet. We ship a lot of Green Giants to Mid-Florida and southern California, zone 9, where they do well Rate Botany Shop Garden Center at the: Rate Botany Shop Garden Center at the Garden Watchdog Gift certificates for those special occasions - $25.00 TO $300.00 click here To buy gift certificates for the exact amount , including shipping costs, for any of our plants call our toll free number Please note: There is a $8.00 minimum shipping charge on all orders. Questions or comments? mailto: Info@botanyshop.com Three purchase options: * Choose secure on-line ordering * Call toll free--1-888-855-3300 * Print our 2 page order form and mail it in. click to enlarge 8 to 11 inch Thuja "Green Giant" in a Jiffy-7 Peat-Pot Summer & Fall Special @ $2.50ea. Plus S&H @ $0.50ea. Minimum shipping charge $8.00 We prefer to winter ship & plant this size to zone 7 and south through southern Florida and most of California, Washington and Oregon Click this link for your zone: USDA HARDINESS ZONE MAP Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity click to enlarge 18 to 24 inch Thuja "Green Giant" in quart container.--- Summer & Fall Special --- @ $6.00ea. Plus S&H @ $2.50ea Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Next available shipping date is June 18 2007 click to enlarge 24 to 30 inch Thuja "Green Giant" in 1 gallon container --- Summer and Fall --- 1-10 @ $14.00ea.---11+ @ $12.00ea. Plus S&H @ $5.00ea Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Larger plants subject to oversize shipping charges WE SHIP AND PLANT ALL SUMMER but check our recommended planting dates for your area, or call us at 1-888-855-3300 Click here for planting instructions click to enlarge 3 1/2 - 4 foot Thuja "Green Giant" in 3 gallon container Summer & Fall Special $40.00 each (reg. $45.00ea.) Plus S&H @ $30.00ea Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Will be available for shipping in mid-July 2007 click to enlarge Buy Two 3 1/2 - 4 foot Thuja "Green Giants" in 3 gallon containers Summer & Fall Special $80.00 Plus S&H @ $40.00. Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Will be available for shipping in mid-July 2007 click to enlarge 4 1/2 to 5 foot Thuja "Green Giant" in 5 gallon containers Summer & Fall Special $55.00 ea. Plus S&H @ $40.00 ea. Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Will be available for shipping in mid-July 2007 click to enlarge Buy Two 4 1/2 to 5 foot Thuja "Green Giants" in 5 gallon containers Summer & Fall Special $110.00 Plus S&H @ $50.00 Purchase in multiples of 2 and save $40.00 on shipping costs. We can ship 2 plants in each box. Order and pay now for Guaranteed shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Will be available for shipping in mid-July 2007 Click to enlarge 8 to 9 foot Thuja "Green Giants" in 20 gallon containers $180.00 ea. Picked-up at Joplin, MO or call for shipping arrangements Summer & Fall Special Order and pay now for Guaranteed Spring shipment A Fast Growing Tree Quantity Rustic Red Cedar Creations WE SHIP AND PLANT ALL year but check our recommended planting dates for your area, or call us at 1-888-855-3300 Click here for planting instructions In addition to Green Giant, we offer for sale: Order and pay now for Guaranteed Summer and Fall shipment * Knock Out Rose AARS® Winner Rosa 'Radrazz' PP#11836 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION OF THIS PATENTED PLANT WITHOUT LICENSE IS PROHIBITED Knock Out Rose is a compact, tidy shrub rose and resistant to black-spot. Blooms are fire engine red in cool weather and cherry red in the summer months. The foliage is a dark purplish green and turns to burgundy in the fall. Tough foliage and blooms resist Japanese beetles. Knockout is drought tolerant and requires only 3 to 4 hours of sunlight per day maturing to a 3 foot x 3 foot winter hardy shrub. * Blushing Knock Out Rose Rosa 'Radyod' PPAF Blushing Knock Out Rose is a tough and hardy shrub type rose with outstanding disease resistance. Blooms are light pink gradually changing to shell pink as the bloom ages. Leaves are a mossy green with blue hues. Blushing Knock Out will bloom early in the Spring and continue blooming until the first hard frost in the Fall. Blushing Knock Out is drought tolerant, Blackspot resistant, mildew tolerant and self-cleaning. An excellent choice for a trouble free rose garden. Great plant for hedge, border or foundation planting. * Pink Knock Out Rose Rosa 'Radcon' PPAF Pink Knock Out Rose is a tough and hardy shrub type rose (3x4) with outstanding disease resistance. Blooms are a powerful pink. Leaves are a mossy green with blue hues. Plant anywhere that gets 5 or more hours of direct sunlight each day. Thrives in humid climates. Pink Knock Out will bloom early in the Spring and continue blooming until the first hard frost in the Fall. Pink Knock Out is drought tolerant, Blackspot resistant, mildew tolerant and self-cleaning. An excellent choice for a trouble free rose garden. Great plant for hedge, border or foundation planting. * * Valley Forge - New Harmony - Princeton The new American elms, Valley Forge and New Harmony, recently released by the U S National Arboretum, and Princeton released by a grower in Princeton NJ in 1922 have all proved to be highly tolerant to Dutch Elm Disease and now present a new opportunity to plant an old American favorite, * Alee - New lacebark elm variety- exfoliating bark creates a mosaic of orange, tan and grey. Alee will ship in the Spring of 2007 - * Frontier - New Asian hybrid elm tree variety developed by Dr. Denny Townsend. One of the best, with red new-growth and long lasting reddish-purple to burgundy Fall color. Disease tolerant. * Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboides. This beautiful and unique tree will grow to 40 to 50' in 20 yrs. Matures at 70 to 100' with a spread of 25'. Hardy in zones 5 to 8. * Red maples Autumn Blaze, Brandywine, Somerset and Sun Valley. All are superior red maple trees. They all display brilliant fall color, and * Butterfly bush (buddleia) in 11 outstanding varieties. Click here to view our gallery of Butterfly Bush photos * Canada Red Choke Cherry - Canada Red Choke Cherry is a small tree, maturing at about 20-25 feet in height with a rounded spread of 20 feet. Foliage is a medium green turning yellow-orange in the fall. Has white flowers in late April. Very attractive to wildlife. Tissue cultured. Now available. Persian Ironwood Parrotia - Persian Ironwood Parrotia is comparatively small tree reaching heights of 20-40 feet with moderate growth. It has grayish exfoliating bark and a mottled fall color. It will tolerate full sun and drought conditions. Golden Glory Dogwood - Golden Glory Dogwood is an excellent, small, deciduous tree with exfoliating bark and produces 1" cherry-red oblong fruit that attracts birds. It will produce vivid yellow flowers from mid-February through March. Golden Glory matures at 25 feet in height with a 20 foot spread in full or part sun. It has good resistance to pests and to deer, is drought tolerant and adapts well to different types of soil. Hardy zones 4-7. Hydrangea Macrophylla - We specialize in cold hardy, (remontant) re-blooming pink or blue mophead hydrangea Macrophylla varieties Endless Summer, Penny Mac, David Ramsey, Oak Hill, and Decator Blue hydrangea that continue to bloom through the summer and fall every year. They will produce magnificent pink to grape to blue blooms depending on the Ph of your soil and availability of Al via Aluminum Sulfate. Avondale Chinese Redbud - Avondale Chinese Redbud is an attractive small tree or shrub. Spring flowers are a vivid magenta-ping in great profusion. Multi-stemmed, upright-rounded to oval-rounded shape. Leaves are a lustrous dark green, typically hart shaped and 5 - 6" long x 5 - 6 inches wide. Grows 6 - 10' high and wide, occasionally to 15 feet. Zones 6 to 8 (9) Missouri residents add 7.825% state sales tax. We guarantee all plants for 30 days and certify them to be healthy and disease free and to be true to variety. If you prefer..... Call toll free 1-888-855-3300 or click here to print our order form and submit it along with your personal check or money-order. We ship UPS only on Monday of each week. Orders submitted Monday thru Friday will be shipped the following Monday. You will almost always receive your order by Thursday or Friday of the same week. Allow 2 weeks for delivery on all orders submitted by mail. Fax 1-888-844-8198. Botany Shop, Inc. will always respect our customers' right to privacy and will never share with anyone the information obtained from this site or from orders submitted to us by mail. eXTReMe Tracker Updated May 30, 2007 Botany Shop, Inc. will always respect our customers' right to privacy and will never share with anyone the information obtained from this site or from orders submitted to us by mail. Copyright © 2000 - 2005 Botany Shop, Inc. All rights reserved Established 1973 Top...See Morewhere can I buy Thuja Green Giants in/near Columbus?
Comments (5)I am pretty sure that I have seen them at Lowe's in past years-- As much as I like to support the smaller businesses, I can't complain about the quality of the plants I have gotten there. I have also gotten good healthy trees at Strader's and Darby Creek nurseries. I had the problem of wanting trees to screen but could not grow too tall because of overhead wires. I called around to every nursery in the phone book till I found one who had what I needed....See MoreCan I plant an Arbor Vitae Green Giant now?
Comments (14)All matrices of growing plants do produce organic matter, long after initial planting. Although we may tend to think of plant roots as static, permanent structures, the fine "feeder" roots, which do the actual absorption of water, with nutrients dissolved in that water, are replaced numerous times during the course of a single growing season. All this sloughed-off root system is organic matter, and this is the reason, for example, that old, well-established park lawns can often look pretty good even though there are almost no inputs in terms of fertilizers. If there are trees in the area, those too are growing/dying/sloughing off the active portions of their root systems over the course of a single year. So I can't agree that once applied, the gradual loss of organic matter via decomposition is a one-way street headed to OM depletion. That's not what I see, and if one were to, say, mulch over the top, with wood chips, bark, cocoa hulls, pine straw, name your organic material....this too is easily enough to maintain the OM content through time. None of which should be taken to indicate that amending holes at time of planting, for such relatively permanent plants as trees and shrubs, is a good idea. It's not, and the drainage anomalies are the reason. If the plant came in a ball of highly organic potting medium, water will not move into that course material until all the surrounding finer-textured soil is saturated. If for whatever reason, the transplant came with very fine soil and is then planted into a courser soil, it will be prone to being inundated with water. Water cannot move from fine textured soils to coarse-textured ones until the fine stuff is completely saturated. You don't want such issues to be plaguing your plantings. I also install large areas of bedding plants, ie. flower beds, and there, the incorporation of well-cured compost is simply an amazing improvement, with one caveat: Some species you may wish to grow actually will perform better in a dry, lifeless, almost sterile soil. Adding compost to beds where you wish to grow such plants will often yield big, floppy plants which can't hold themselves up, and which often do not produce flowers. But for all other cases, it works wonders. +oM...See MoreNeed advice on whether I can plant a lot of green giant Arborvitae
Comments (7)Thanks for the input. Here are some more pics. The first to show the chain-link fence and what I'm trying to screen from. The second to show the other side of the property where I have a Woodfence that I want to add privacy trees in front of. You can also see that it's downward sloped and it gets a little wet. I checked out the juniper they do seem to be a little pricey. Since my place is fenced in would you suggest emerald green instead?...See Morecharles kidder
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