Fab!

Dax

Awesome pics!!! Can't wait til mine look like that! :)

Beautiful! I've only got three, but maybe I'll get more!

These guys are easy to grow from cuttings.

They have of course got the label wrong, it is a hybrid between Thuja standishii and Thuja plicata, not just a straight cultivar of T. plicata

Resin

Only you would know that Resin. Thanks for the clarification. I will inform the museum grounds staff. They do not like mislabeled anything on their garden setting.

Dave

I guess the only remaining unsolved mystery is what should the label read?

Hi Dave,

I'd guess the best would be as follows:

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     Thuja 'Green Giant'

   (Thuja standishii à Thuja plicata)

     Cultivated origin, Denmark

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Resin

I don't like cutting trees down, but sometimes it's proper. Such a closely-spaced hedge would be better off at this point if every other tree were removed. The gaps would mostly fill in just a few yrs.

Ok if you say so. As for me I don't think so. I don't see how you can improve on what is already there. To cut down every other one would be a disaster of unlimited proportions and destroy the setting.

Dave

Beng's right Dave. Unfortunately they were planted too close from the get-go. It'll be interesting however to see what that screen will look like in another 20 years. Heck maybe as you say, it will look fine. They certainly are in full sun.

Nice sign Resin. Something unique about cultivar origin... I'll pass that info along to the ACS.

Dax

P.s. If I were going to plant a Green Giant screen, I'd space those suckers 10 feet apart. Then again, it's the aesthetics of larger-shown specimens that, I like.

Long term haul I would consider wider spaceing. It all depends what you are trying to accomplish in a given amount of time.

In this case I think the museum is going for the quick fix of screening a boiler and electrical generator equipment house from view.

My point is now is not the time to cut every other one down as the lower limb structure on those left would never regenerate to fill in opened up area.

As Dax says they could look fine left as is. We will see what another 5 years will do and repost then, Lord willing.

Dave

I'm on your side Dave. Just like the song lyrics, "your own personal Jesus."

Duran Duran??? I forget. Nope... *Depeche Mode*

Dax