I was wondering if anyone grows this shrub and what soil type do you use to plant it in. I was able to purchase quite a few of them from Home Depot at a good price. Also, how would you use it in your landscaping?
If I remember correctly, 'Sherwood Moss' is a Thuja occidentalis cultivar with whitish new growth - it will probably need some shade in summer there. If arborvitaes are already seen to be growing well in the neighborhood it will probably only need to be planted in existing soil, mulched and kept watered in summer. In the intermountain region a critical point pertaining to gardening is if the garden is located on the arid alkaline flats where most of the human population resides or if it is on a forested mountainside where there is moister climate and more acidic soil. To grow plants adapted to the latter conditions down on the flats the aridity and alkalinity must be ameliorated with shading, irrigation and special beds of acidic soil.
Thank you very much. I have been adding pine needles to the planting hole and sometimes 20-20-20 fertilizer. But I'm not sure on what I do when i plant in the fall and how to plant Arbovitaes. I have a couple Emerald Greens and Little Giant and Leyland Cypress to plant out. These are in gallon pots and I'm going to grow them out for now to see how they grow and if I like them. Emerald Green arborvitaes do grow in the full sun around here and many other conifers. A special treat for myself a few years ago was a weeping Norway Spruce. I think I got that right It is grown in full sun next to a side walk and fence facing south so it does just fine. I haven't done much to feritlize it, occasional fish pond water and well water most often. My family does tease me about over watering, but I just tell them. it is adding to the roots of a couple of tall trees. Blue Spruce and a Pind tree. They are about 35 years old. Next to our gravel circular driveway and blacktop street road.
When you think you need to provide different soil for specific plants (not adapted to existing soil) you want to grow, give them an entire bed of it - preferably on top of the existing soil, rahter than dug out of it. Do not plant in individually amended planting holes, this is not a successful method. Also do not use strong fertilizers like 20-20-20 without sampling and testing soil beforehand, to establish a need for such high does of all three primary nutrients (and whatever else the product may contain). I also would not put pond water on garden plants I wanted to keep healthy, one of the most prevalent and destructive problems in plant culture are things called water molds. When present, these enter the roots of plants during hot and wet conditions (such as an irrigated garden soil, during summer) and rot them. Your pond may have these swimming around in it.
