Emerald Green Arborvitae is a popular choice among homeowners, landscapers, and gardeners alike. With its striking emerald green foliage, this evergreen plant adds an attractive and elegant touch to any landscape. This guide will tell you all the details about how to space these plants right.
The spacing requirements for Emerald Green Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis ‘Emerald Green’) depend on the intended use. If you’re growing them as a privacy screen or hedge, you’ll want to space them closer together. If you’re growing them as individual trees, you’ll want to give them more space.
Emerald Green Arborvitaes will typically grow to be about 12-14 feet high, and they grow fairly slowly, about 6-9 inches per year. So, keep their mature size in mind when choosing a planting location. They prefer full sun to partial shade and well-draining soil.
If you’re planting a hedge for privacy, you’ll want Emerald Green Arborvitaes to be closer together so that their branches overlap and create a dense screen. For Emerald Green Arborvitae, which usually gets 3-4 feet wide, a good spacing for a solid privacy screen is about 2-3 feet apart (measured from the center of one tree to the center of the next).
If you want the individual trees to be distinguishable but still form a loose screen, you might space them 4-5 feet apart.
Measure the length of the area where you want to plant the trees. This is where you’ll be planting them side by side.
Divide the total length of the planting area by the desired spacing between Emerald Green Arborvitaes. For instance, if your hedge length is 50 feet and you want to plant for a tight hedge (2-3 feet apart), you would need between 17 to 25 trees (50/3 = ~17 trees, 50/2 = 25 trees).
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