Growing Arborvitaes for a Privacy Fence

We have a comment here, “do you know what’s blowing me away is that you’re talking, I have five trees, they’re two years old. I put them like a boundary to the neighbors. They have grown about two feet since planting them.”

That’s not outrageous, it’s probably an arborvitae of some type. There’s a green giant variety that’s really common, really popular. It grows really quickly. It’s deer resistant. It’s winter wind resistant. So it checks all the boxes for most people. And a lot of times when I say arborvitae, people think of the real narrow, skinny ones.

That’s the first thing that comes to mind. There are so many different varieties of arborvitae. These look more like an evergreen tree, more like you would think of a Norway spruce tree, because they’re very pyramidal in habit, wide at the base, narrower at the top. But they do grow very quickly.

So it’s a great plant to put in for a screen tree. And they’re soft. And they’re soft. They’re not prickly. And you don’t have to wait 10 years for the screen to actually be there. It’ll be a screen within a few short seasons.

It’s just absolutely beautiful. Especially at this time of year with the snow on them and everything. It helps with the wind and that kind of stuff too. Great for landscaping.

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