How to Care for your Emerald Green Arborvitae

We just added 14 more Emerald Green Arborvitaes to our landscaping, to replace our sad-looking Leyland Cypress Trees. In this video, I show you the before-and-after, then explain how to care for your own Emerald Green Arborvitaes including: planting, spacing, water and sun requirements, fertilizer, yellow versus brown needles, soil amendments, mulch, deer resistance, Winter protection, bagworms and spider mites, and browning needles. (Use the Chapter links below to jump to a specific topic in the video.)

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro and Overview
0:59 - Background on our Leyland Cypress Trees
1:42 - Why we chose Emerald Green Arborvitaes
2:30 - Heavy wet soil and our 2-year experiment
3:19 - Why did we hire landscapers versus doing it ourselves?
4:21 - Here’s a list of everything we had the landscapers do
6:54 - Quick tour: Emerald Green Arborvitaes, Red Tip Photinias, and giant Leyland Cypress Tree
11:34 - How to Care for your Emerald Green Arborvitae
18:14 - Annual browning needles and what to do


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