A Peek At My Arborvitae Collection: Bright Yellow, Deep Green, Globes & Pyramids

Arborvitaes are evergreens with soft leaves and offer a variety of different shapes, sizes, and colors including globes, pyramids, bright yellow, and deep green. There are so many different varieties to choose from, you're sure to find a favorite.

[@thomasbrown6970]

What an amazing yard this man has. Such a great collection. I just love the variety of color and texture.

[@minutestar93]

I love your Evergreen collection, awesome video! Thanks for sharing your plant family!!

[@nkechiodukwe492]

Me too love the evergreen

[@mianaomipost9885]

I love this video so much!! Just absolutely stunning collection! Your love is why they’re flourishing so well! Such a great steward of God’s handiwork!💚🌲🌲🌲✅

[@gardenhike]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@BiggCope]

Great job, great video.

[@kk2485]

This was super cool. We are planting arborvitaes and it's nice to see the different types and how they hold up through snowy winters. Thanks for sharing!

[@nkechiodukwe492]

Yes i love the tress cuz they are an all year round tree, praying mine grows well

[@10thlineshore31]

I have many of these trees planted into a berm. Yikes, seeing the size of them in your video is really making me second guess my spacing!!

[@juliecline9552]

Same 😂

[@icecold5746]

Absolutely stunning collection of arborvitaes.

[@gardenhike]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video.

[@nkechiodukwe492]

Yes I think arborvitaes are great trees

[@lindyf381]

This is a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. I like that you show us the whole plant including height and width. You've got an amazing garden, an amazing variety of the Thuja occidentalis species. ❤

[@gardenhike]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sammysworld5485]

You have an amazing collection of arbs & conifers in your garden. Since my NY garden Is much smaller I grow my evergreen in containers. They do just fine. ❤

[@gardenhike]

Thank you. I grow some non-hardy evergreens in containers too, and love how they look in them.

[@voramai6286]

Thank you so much for making such an informative video. I always wonder how they will look at maturity. We also get tons of snow in zone 6a, nice to know some species do not flop over.

[@nkechiodukwe492]

Yes me too cant wait for mine to grow

[@laurakourajian8782]

Amazing!

[@MsCmsh]

Wow!! Your evergreen collection is gorgeous and to die for!! I’d like at least one of each and more!! I’m down in the south and is so much more limited on evergreen choices!! I’d love to have a few blue spruce for sure if I can !! Please share your technique on planting and keeping them happy ?! Thanks for sharing your beautiful trees!! 🌲🌲🌲👏😃

[@gardenhike]

Great vid idea! I’ll put that on the list. I can always find room for one more 😊. Just need this snow to melt!

[@TRguy64]

'Yellow Ribbon' is an excellent very cold hardy cedar that resists winter browning. I have five, some as tall 14 ft and still pushing skyward! It takes excellent to pruning and can be sheared tight and narrow or left as be. I'd say it's a good choice all the way down to -45 C zone 2.

[@tomtwiss8506]

Great video! I was wondering how many years those degroots had been growing there. I've been struggling with mine for about two years. I'm a big fan of the yellow ribbons too. Another yellow arborvitiae I planted last year was 'Polar gold' which over wintered amazingly with zero winter burn which I sometimes get on the yellow ribbons.

[@gardenhike]

The Degroot’s have been there about 10 years. I believe they were about 3-4 feet when I planted them. I have a third in that same bed that gets far less water and is only about half the size, looser form. I’ve found that plenty of water really helps Arbs look their best (I suppose that is true with most plants). The Polar Gold looks interesting.

[@elizabethcunningham4749]

Love watching your videos. My only complaint is there are not enough of them. 😊

[@gardenhike]

Thank you. Glad you like them!

[@beta447]

3:00 & 4:23 are ++

[@theweirdospfan.28]

For shade problems, I would try eastern hemlocks, they tolerate heavy shade and can grow in zones 3-7

[@nkechiodukwe492]

This really look nice hoping mine grow well too

[@CocoaKisses88]

Love !

[@serenababy6358]

Love your collection and property! Could you share the watering requirements for the arbs and if they're on drip irrigation? Thank you

[@gardenhike]

Arborvitaes I have above ground drips on all my vegetable gardens but do not use any drips on my ornamentals; too much digging, replacing, cut lines etc. I feel like drips underground loose their effectiveness over time (plugged emitters) and how do you know? I water my turf during dry spells with overhead rotor heads and some of the Arbs shown in the video get ample water, others get very little. Arbs are thristy and drink it up quickly but do suprisingly well in very dry conditions.

[@SleepyKittens]

Thuja NorthStar will also bow in the snow, I will take your advice and let it flex back on its own.

[@Nikolasto77]

You have an amazing property! Do you maintain this all yourself?

[@gardenhike]

My wife and I share the chores, and we do all the maintenance ourselves. As we get older, it’s not getting any easier, but we still love it! 😊

[@Nikolasto77]

@@gardenhike you are very talented to say the least. Did you have any formal training in landscaping or did you just self-learn?

[@gardenhike]

I’m mostly self taught on the landscaping side, but I do have formal education in Horticulture (BS degree). I’ve spent about half of my working days as a garden center manager and the other half directly involved in landscape maintenance services. The years doing landscape maintenance (primarily turf, tree, and shrub care) taught me the most. I’ve been in hundreds of different landscapes and gardens. I attribute what you have seen in the KZbin videos to years of observation. And while not knowing it at the time, ideas and images “soak” into you. I always joke that my shovel is my paintbrush. I haven’t always known what I was going to create, but one I started digging…..well….It’s still a bit of a mystery to me as to how this all turned out so nice as I never really had a master plan. I just kept (keep) digging and planting. Bit of a long answer there, hope you don’t mind. Thanks for the nice compliment.

[@frredde]

I’m a bit surprised by those DeGroots’. What I have been told, and seen on internet, is that it’s a quite narrow plant. All other pictures I’ve seen of it has been slender specimens. And also on youtube videos with for example MrMaple and Horttube/Jim Putnam. I have one myself that I’ve expected to stay narrow. But maybe it’s easily done by pruning..?

[@gardenhike]

The references I trust indicate that 4-5’ wide is standard, consistent with the two I highlighted in the video. You could keep it narrower with annual shearing, but start when they are small.

[@32speedygonzales]

Hi, I am going to buy later 2 de Groot because i saw it in your video. An you tell me how far apart you planted yours please

[@gardenhike]

They are about 6 feet (1.8 meters) apart.

[@32speedygonzales]

Thanks

[@32speedygonzales]

@@gardenhike I would have not thought they are just 2 meter apart. They really look amazing. Love the character they have. The foliage is very different than the Smaragd. Couldn’t hold myself I also picked up a Jantar and a forever Goldie

[@nkechiodukwe492]

They are great tree to use and have, hoping mine grow soon

[@juliecline9552]

How old was your arborvitae? Trying to determine how much it grows a year on average

[@gardenhike]

It depends on the variety. Smaller dwarf globes average 3-6 inches per year. Larger varieties like the Yellow Ribbon in the video average around 8-12 inches per year. That one is about 15 years old now. Same for the Degroot’s.

[@juliecline9552]

@@gardenhike thank you for the response, I appreciate it!