Arborvitae in landscape design 
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Thuja is rightly called the “tree of life”. The fluffy evergreen beauty is often used in landscaping and landscaping. Thuja occupies a special place in landscape design. It can be a hedge, a fancy figured composition on the lawn, or a single solitaire planting. A wide variety of varieties allows you to choose the optimal crown shape and color of needles for your personal plot.
Why landscape designers prefer thuja
Thuja is a real find for a landscape designer. From it you can create unusual figures that can turn any floristic composition into a unique dendrological spectacle. This plant was simply created by nature itself to decorate the garden. Modern varieties have a number of advantages:
- cleaning the air from dust and soot in the growing area;
- undemanding to lighting;
- suppression of strong gusts of wind;
- frost resistance;
- absorption of street noise;
- ease of care;
- filling the air with phytoncides that kill pathogenic microbes;
- resistance to pests and diseases;
- ability to tolerate pruning and maintain selected shape.
Thanks to all the advantages listed above, evergreen shrubs are often used to decorate a plot or garden, which means it’s definitely worth buying thuja in bulk .
Varieties and varieties of thuja
Thujas are distinguished by the shape of their crown. There are spherical, conical and columnar shrubs. There are 5 types of thuja: western, Korean, eastern, folded and Japanese. However, the most popular plant in landscape design is considered to be the western thuja. Thanks to its luxurious conical crown, unpretentiousness and rich green needles, it is often used to form a hedge or create a landscape composition. There are several varieties of this species, but the following plants are best suited for growing:
- Smaragd - grows, on average, up to 6 meters, has a dense crown that does not lose color all year round;
- “Danika” - grows slowly, reaches only 80 cm in height in adulthood, the shrub is distinguished by a spherical crown shape;
- “Golden Globe” is a highly branched bush with dark green needles, the tips of the shoots have a beautiful golden hue;
- Brabant - reaches a height of 8 meters, has a columnar crown;
- Columna - has a dense crown, grows up to 5-8 meters high.
In addition, varieties are divided into slow and fast growing. The first option is often used to create outlandish figures, the second - as a hedge as an alternative to a fence. In any of the above groups there are plants with needles of various colors, from light green to malachite or blue.
What plants to plant with
Almost all varieties of thuja are combined with other plants. The main thing is to choose the right “neighbors”. It is necessary to take into account the characteristics of the root system, as well as the fact that slightly acidic soil should be suitable for fellow plants.
Most representatives of the flora tolerate well the proximity to evergreen shrubs, but you should not plant willow, dahlias, fir, lilac, peonies, pine, and all types of fruit-bearing trees next to them.
Thuja is a beautiful, unpretentious coniferous plant that can become a real decoration of a park and garden, a zoning element or a hedge. The plant is frost-resistant, does not rot, is resistant to pests, and can be pruned. The right choice of variety, an interesting idea for placement with other plants, as well as proper care will allow you to quickly achieve good results.