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...