Home & Garden Landscapes employs a wide variety of heat-tolerant evergreens and conifers that are suitable for use in the Southern landscape.
Home landscape designs which incorporate some evergreens and conifers provide for a more balanced visual presentation and add variants of foliage and color on a year-round basis.
With many years of working with conifers, we have developed a list we can successfully add to any landscapes including specimen-quality cultivars of Colorado Blue Spruce which thrive in Southern heat and humidity as well as southern natives including Eastern Red Cedar and White Pine.
Green Giant
Green Giant is a great choice for evergreen screening on properties that have the room for it’s wide spread. From full-sun to partial shade, this coniferous evergreen is hard to beat. Created by crossing Leyland Cypress and Western Red Cedar, this unique plant combines some of the positive attributes of both of its parents while leaving behind some of the negative traits of Leyland Cypress.
Green Giant is fast-growing with a strong root system which eliminates the problem Leyland Cypress has with its tendency to blow over in storms and heavy ice and snow. The plants inherited the uniformity of the Western Red Cedar and are more tolerant of bag worms which plaque Leyland Cypress as well.
After its introduction, deer and bag worms largely left Green Giant alone. Reports are now coming in that indicate the deer are warming up to the taste of Green Giants and some trees have been affected by bagworms, particularly if they are stressed.
That aside, it is a great screening plant and we highly recommend you consider it if you have the room. Trees can spread 10 or more feet in width at the base and can easily reach 30 foot plus tall.
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