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| i am new to this website. i searched all over the web, but what is exactly the difference between emerald green and green giant? please let me know. |
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| "Emerald Green" is a translation into English of the cultivar name 'Smaragd' for a highly popular dense- and slow-growing Danish selection of Thuja occidentalis. It produces a small tree, somewhat variable in outline but often pointed and nearly columnar. 'Green Giant' is an eventually large tree-sized hybrid cultivar derived from T. plicata x T. standishii. It can develop fairly rapidly under suitable conditions. Its density and outline are more like those of a wild arborvitae species. It has been promoted as a replacement for the fast- and tall-growing Leyland cypress, in regions where that has disease problems. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 18:35
| searched the whole web.. eh??? after ten years.. my GG is 20 feet tall ... from a 4 incher planted ... after ten years.. my smargard.. emerald green ... is 6 feet tall from a 4 footer planted ... try googling green giant for it latin name ... and then add: annual growth rate... and then google for emerald green latin.. and add the same.. and you should find.. one grows 2 to 5 feet per year.. and the other 6 inches or so ..... depending on your climate.. you better have a pretty big yard for GG's ... and on either.. INSURE you buy single leader plants ... welcome to GW.. glad to help .. come back often .... ken ps: the latin names are VERY IMPORTANT.. its where you start all searching .... trust me.. i fought them for years.. lol ... |
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