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Plant: Sting® Arborvitae
Arborvitae · Thuja occidentalis 'Sting'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
Sting is an exceptionally narrow arborvitae with a tight, columnar, upright form and a sword like silhouette, carrying green scale like evergreen foliage year round. It reaches about 15 to 20 feet tall while staying only 12 to 18 inches wide, so it fits screening jobs on very narrow sites and works as a bold vertical accent in mixed borders. Grow it in part sun to sun with average water in clay or loam soils that drain well; it needs little care, and any shaping is done in summer. The species is native to eastern North America and tolerates alkaline soils, urban pollution and black walnut.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 1.5 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-8
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Sting is an exceptionally narrow arborvitae with a tight, columnar, upright form and a sword like silhouette, carrying green scale like evergreen foliage year round. It reaches about 15 to 20 feet tall while staying only 12 to 18 inches wide, so it fits screening jobs on very narrow sites and works as a bold vertical accent in mixed borders. Grow it in part sun to sun with average water in clay or loam soils that drain well; it needs little care, and any shaping is done in summer. The species is native to eastern North America and tolerates alkaline soils, urban pollution and black walnut.
- Foliage
- Scale-like in adults, ovate, obtuse to bluntly acute, yellowish green to grayish green below.
- Fruit
- The cone is oblong and light brown and measures 1/3 to 1/2 inches long.
- Bark & stems
- The attractive grayish brown to reddish-brown bark has shallow furrows.
- Pruning
- Usually not needed; any shaping is done in summer.
- Native range
- Central & E. Canada to N. Central and Eastern North America
