This landscape design for trees and shrubs will add contrasting early spring color. This free do-it-yourself tree and shrub landscape design provides a show of spring flowers highlighted by an evergreen backdrop of the Green Giant Arborvitae. This planting can serve as a great focal point or accent piece to any yard I call it the “Flowering Green Giant”
Included Species
- 3 – Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae
- 2 – Yoshino Cherry
- 3* – Forsythia Bush
*Add 3 Forsythia below each Yoshino Cherry 7-10 years after they are planted.
Hardiness Zone: 5-7 This landscape design can be expected to grow in the temperature extremes of the zones shown in color in this arborday.org hardiness zone map.
- Sun Exposure: Full sun
- Space needed: 65 feet by 35 feet
- Required topography: Flat to rolling
Recommended Use / Design Principal
The Green Giant Arborvitae planting provides a show of spring flowers highlighted by an evergreen backdrop of the Green Giant Arborvitae. This planting can serve as a great focal point or accent piece.
The Yoshino Cherries offer a dazzling profusion of white blooms in the spring accompanied by a mass of bright yellow blooms of the Forsythia. The Green Giant Arborvitae provide a uniform deep evergreen backdrop for the white and yellow blooms acting as a punctuation mark for the flower show.
Peak Landscape Design Time(s): Spring and Winter
Spring
Yoshino Cherry: white bloom
Forsythia: yellow bloom
Winter
Green Giant Arborvitae: evergreen
