Plant: Fire Chief - Arborvitae
Arborvitae · Thuja occidentalis 'Fire Chief'
Size: 6 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
This is a selection of Thuja occidentalis, a dense evergreen conifer native to eastern North America with fine textured, scale like foliage that persists through winter. The species is slow growing and low maintenance, accepting full sun to partial shade and clay or loam soil that stays moist but drains well, and it tolerates neutral to alkaline pH, air pollution, wet soil and black walnut. Small oblong light brown cones ripen in summer, the bark is furrowed and exfoliating, and the dense growth shelters songbirds and small mammals. It is planted for hedges, screens, foundations and specimen use.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-7
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
This is a selection of Thuja occidentalis, a dense evergreen conifer native to eastern North America with fine textured, scale like foliage that persists through winter. The species is slow growing and low maintenance, accepting full sun to partial shade and clay or loam soil that stays moist but drains well, and it tolerates neutral to alkaline pH, air pollution, wet soil and black walnut. Small oblong light brown cones ripen in summer, the bark is furrowed and exfoliating, and the dense growth shelters songbirds and small mammals. It is planted for hedges, screens, foundations and specimen use.
- 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.
- Native range
- Central & E. Canada to N. Central and Eastern North America
