Thuja western - This is an ornamental evergreen. Shade-tolerant, frost-resistant, there are both trees and shrubs. In Europe, it was imported from North America. Initially lived along the banks of rivers and swamps, undemanding to care. Therefore, it is very popular in ornamental gardening. Thuja western has many varieties, and before you choose the one that interests you, you need to know its features. We offer the most popular frost-resistant varieties of western thuja.
Thuja western Smaragd
Coniferous decorative evergreen tree. The krone is narrow, canonical, dense, compactly symmetric, with a diameter of up to 1.8 meters. The needles are dark emerald green, evergreen, scaly, shiny ,. Plant height is about five meters. Fruits are brown buds measuring 0.7 cm. It grows slowly, grows only 5 cm wide and 10 cm high in a year.
Tui Smaragd is a columnar variety, but without a hairstyle has the shape of a cone. The plant is unpretentious, lives long (up to 150 years) and perfectly adapts to different weather conditions. It grows in almost all soils, but prefers fresh loam and soil with lime. City conditions stand well. Very high frost resistance, but in the early spring suffers from sunburn.
Important! After snowfalls, shake off the branches so as not to damage the crown of the thuja, and in the spring it is necessary to cover the plant (especially young) from sunburn.
It is better to plant a plant in lighted areas, although it tolerates shady ones as well. Perfectly ionizes and cleans the air. It grows up as a container culture, is used in the creation of live fences and any backyard compositions.
Did you know? Tuyu western Golden Smaragd was awarded a bronze medal at the international exhibition "Green is Life" in 2008 in Warsaw.
Thuja western Columna
This coniferous evergreen tree. Represents the columnar and fast-growing varieties of western thuja. The only variety that reaches a height of more than eight meters. During the year it grows up to 20 cm in height and 4-6 cm in width. Lives up to two hundred years. The crown is narrow, vertical, kolonovidnaya, about 1.5 m in diameter. Its needles are dark green, scaly, shiny even in winter. Fruits - round brown cones.
Seeds are narrow, flat. Thuja Kolumna is unpretentious, but does not tolerate compacted soils and requires moist, not over-dried soil. It prefers lighted and shaded places, its crown will be dense and bright in the sun, and density will be lost in the shade. It has absolute cold resistance. It is the most cold-resistant culture of all varieties of the western columnar thuja. Perfect for making high living fences. Propagated by cuttings.
Thuja western Fasciata
Thuja Fastygiata is a powerful columnar decorative coniferous tree with a narrow and dense crown. Plant height more than six meters. Annually grows by 25 cm in height, and by 5 cm in width. The bark of young plants is red-brown, and adults are gray-brown and smooth. The needles are brilliant, scaly, emerald green. Fruits - rare, elongated, brown cones about 1 cm in length.
The plant is winter hardy. It is recommended to plant the Thuyu Fasigiata in well-lit or shaded areas. Prefers fertile, moist, lime-containing soil. This type of thuja looks great in single and group plantings, suitable for beautiful panoramic compositions, planting in hedges. The plant lives up to two hundred years.
Thuja western Globoza
Evergreen coniferous shrub round shape. Plant height is 1.5 meters and the same width. It grows slowly: five centimeters in height and five in width per year. Lives 200 years. The crown of the plant is dense, spherical. Fruits are round, brown, up to 0.7 cm. The needles are dark green, large, scaly.
Did you know? Thuja western Globoza is known in culture since 1874.
Used for low live fencing, single and group decorative plantings. Loves lighted, windless and shaded places. It prefers moist, fresh, stagnant soil, fertile loam. It tolerates various dressings. Frost-resistant.
Thuja West Golden Globe
This is a spherical, dwarf dense shrub with straight and flat, raised up and densely located shoots. The needles are golden, yellow-green, scaly, large. Slow growing variety. An adult plant is about a meter high and 1.2 meters wide.
The root system is superficial, it does not tolerate a dense soil with an excess of moisture. Thuja western Golden Globe prefers illuminated and shaded areas.
Important! In the shade the plant will lose its golden color, it will become rich green.
Prefers fresh, moist, fertile loam without stagnant water. Frost-resistant. Do not forget that in early spring, when the soil has not yet thawed out and the bright sun is shining, young plants can get burned needles.
Therefore, you need to cover them with agrofibre or spruce branches, until the soil has melted. It is used for low hedges or borders, for spherical accent in various decorative compositions.
Thuja western teddy
Dwarf coniferous ornamental spherical plant with thin, densely located shoots, which are covered with needles in young plants - this is Teddy's Thuja. Growth is extremely slow. The height of the ten-year-old plant is 0.3 m, and the width is 0.4 m. The needles are dark green (autumn - bronze), thin, needle. Crohn spherical, slightly loose with time.
It will require sufficiently moist (it does not tolerate dry air and dry soil) and fertile soil, but it quickly grows from overfeeding and loses its shape. It is recommended for small personal plots, rock gardens, alpine hills, rocky and heather gardens. Prefers light or shaded areas. It is cold-resistant, but in the early spring it can burn the needles from the sun, so do not forget to take appropriate precautions.
Thuja western Kholmstrup
This is a unique variety of western thuja, having an original form with a characteristic narrow pyramidal and fairly dense crown. The plant can grow up to two or three meters. Even without a forming haircut, it saves its classic columnar shape. Crown width 1.2 meters.
Important! This species has the densest crown among other varieties of western thuja.
Perennial conifer decorative evergreen plant. Grows in a year 10-20 cm in height and 4-6 cm in width. Shoots are relatively short, densely located. The needles are thick, dark green, scaly, not changing color all year. Thuja Holmstrup is unpretentious about the soil, but prefers fertile moist loams, does not tolerate dry and overmoistened soil. 
Plant it better in the lighted areas or in partial shade. Thuja Holmstrup in the sun is bright and dense in shape, in the shade the crown is thinning - not enough photosynthesis. Cold-resistant. It is used in group and single landings, live fences, garden labyrinths and low alleys. Excellently withstands urban conditions.
Thuja western Sankist
One of the most valuable varieties of western thuja with golden color of needles, perfectly suited for creating a golden-yellow wall, contrastingly looking against the background of darker plants. Perfectly decorate the alleys and various landscape compositions. This coniferous decorative evergreen cone-shaped large shrub. Plant height is 3-5 meters, and width - 1.5 meters. Its branches are vertical and densely branched, slightly twisted.
Scaly needles, brilliant, large, bright, golden yellow in young plants. It grows well in the sun or in partial shade, and turns green in the shade, the crown becomes loose. The variety is unpretentious, but will require fertile, fresh and moist soil. The plant is frost-resistant, wind-resistant, shade-tolerant. He is afraid of sunburn in early spring, therefore it is necessary to cover the plant with agrofibre or fir fur twigs. Shelter is removed when the soil thaws.
Did you know? Karl Linney in 1753 first described the western thuja. Then she gained her biological name.
Thuja western Reingold
Slow-growing (annual growth of only five centimeters) coniferous dwarf shrubs conical or egg-shaped. By the age of ten it reaches about 1.5 meters. The color of the needles is changing: in summer, golden yellow, and in winter - brown. Young branches are covered with needles, and on adults the needles become scaly. Fruits - round, brown cones about 0.7 cm.
Prefers areas well-lit and partial shade, in shady places, needles lose their golden-yellow color and high density of the crown. In preference the fertile and moistened soil, without stagnation of water. Tui Rheingold has high winter hardiness. In early spring, it is recommended to cover the plants with agrofibre or spruce branches to prevent sunburn. It is applied on small sites, in hedges, stone gardens, for single and group landings.
Thuja Western Woodwardy
Dwarf conifer evergreen plant with a spherical crown, and then - ovoid. The maximum height is up to two meters, and the width is 0.4 meters. The needles are green, scaly. Shoots thick, flat, straight. Fruits are small, brown bumps. Loves a fertile and moist soil.
In the sandy soil should make a little clay. It grows well in partial shade, but chooses well-lit places. The plant is frost-resistant and shade-tolerant. Suitable for decoration of facade areas, group and single plantings of rocky gardens. Possible cultivation in containers as decorations for terraces or wide balconies.
Did you know? Thuja western is used in perfumery (detergents for hair and body, phytobalms and aroma oils) and medicine (treatment of skin diseases as a disinfectant and expectorant), and also essential oils are made from its needles.
