Thuja

The interesting facts

Thuja is an evergreen tree or a bush with a dense crone, with a height of 30 m. Needles are squamous, densely pressed to bines, fragrant, yellowish-green colour. It breeds with the stratified seeds and shanks. It feels a topiary well and saves the given form for a long time. It is steady in the conditions of a city, shade-requiring, cold-resistant.

Thuja western is a tree with a height of 20 m. At young age a crone is dense, narrow-pyramidal, later becomes oviform. The needles are green, shining, become brown-green in winter. It grows slowly. It is shade-requiring, but develops better at good illumination, it is winter-hardy, steady against gas and smoke. It prefers sour and subacidic damp soils. It feels a scrap well. It breeds with shanks, seeds and regrowth.

Thuja western brabant is a fast-growing tree of the conic form with a height of 15-20 m. and diameter of a crone 3-4 m. Needles are scaly, green, saves colouring in winter. It blossoms in April-May. Cones are brown, oblong-oviform, 0,8-1,2 sm in the length. The annual gain with height 30 sm, width-10 sm.

It is not exacting to soil, feels both dryness, and superfluous humidifying of soil, however grows on fertile garden soils is better. At cultivation on poor dry soils it forms rare branches with faded needles and too plentifully fructifies, that is adversely reflected on decorative effect. It is cold-resistant, easy takes out frosts to 30 degrees, however it can feel bad from the long winter thaw calling untimely sap ascent.

It is applied to single, group plantings and for formation of green hedges (density of planting 0,5-0,7). It feels a topiary well.