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Plant: Sherwood Frost Arborvitae
Arborvitae · Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Frost'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
Sherwood Frost is a slow-growing American arborvitae whose evergreen foliage has creamy white edges that give the plant a frosted look, with the tips turning golden in winter. Summer foliage is light green and shifts to olive green with pale yellow-brown edges in the cold months. It grows in full sun in average to moist soil and keeps its shape with light pruning.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Sherwood Frost is a slow-growing American arborvitae whose evergreen foliage has creamy white edges that give the plant a frosted look, with the tips turning golden in winter. Summer foliage is light green and shifts to olive green with pale yellow-brown edges in the cold months. It grows in full sun in average to moist soil and keeps its shape with light pruning.
- Foliage
- Scale-like foliage that is light green in summer with creamy white edges, turning olive green with pale yellow-brown edges and golden tips in winter.
- Fruit
- Small oblong light brown cones, 1/3 to 1/2 inch long (species).
- Bark & stems
- Grayish brown to reddish brown bark with shallow furrows (species).
- Native range
- Central and eastern Canada to north central and eastern North America (species); cultivar developed at Sherwood Nursery, Oregon
