Jim Putnam HortTube - Green Giant Thuja Video - January 2025
Jim Putnam over at HortTube has a video up all about Green Giant Thujas. I've embedded it below. I've long watched Jim's videos and always learn something, despite him gardening in Raleigh, North Carolina where the conditions are much different than my backyard Zone 5b/6a garden.
His video taught me a few things about these Thujas - that I've posted about before - that I didn't know before. Jim says that these Green Giant Thujas don't "off-color" as much as other conifers during the Winter and that's been my experience as well. He also talks about their fast-growing nature and how they get B I G. I'm growing them in a little bit of part shade and lightly irrigated, so they haven't been 'rockets'. He said that they 'pick up speed over time' - once they are well-established. Here's hoping that mine are in that 'well-established' place and we'll see them shoot up tall.
He also talks about how they're soft-touch and not prickly. "Scaley foliage". That's a good way to put it.
I've talked about adding even more to the back half of the garden to fill in some of the screening spots this year. Evergreens *behind* flowering shrubs is what I'm after.
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