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Groundpounder

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Anyone know what kind of trees these are? I think they are a variety of arborvitae, but not sure. I'd like to have this same row of trees in my front yard at some point. 20200823_170044.jpg
 
My parents have those in their yard, they've always called them arborvitaes (or whatever the correct plural is of arborvitae).
 
We used to have one until we cut it down a few years ago. You could shake it and it would shed ALOT. Don’t have a clue as to what we called it or what they’re called for that matter.
 
Those look like Emerald Green arborvitae.i planted six of them about 20 years ago. Two of them died because because of poorly drained soil, the other four are still going strong.
 
I call them 'a pain in the azz'. Every other year I had the damn bagworms in them.


They are good for one thing, and that is to create a fairly dense sight barrier in a short amount of time (as trees go). If you have the right soil, they dont require much maintenance, just dont seem to last all that long.
 
Rgbeard said:
I had those at my childhood home.

I believe the proper name is “piece of **** trees”, or perhaps “pieces of ****”.
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Yeah, I think that is what my dad called them too ;-)
 
I agree. I spent most of my childhood picking bagworms off of them and the junipers.
 
They're sold as 'deer resistant'. They are not. Not if you have any significant deer pressure. I've gone through a couple of planting cycles in an attempt to create a privacy screen, and in every case the deer have stripped the greenery and girdled the bark from the trunks, killing the shrubs...this despite regular soakings with deer repellant.
 
GaryM said:
They're sold as 'deer resistant'. They are not. Not if you have any significant deer pressure. I've gone through a couple of planting cycles in an attempt to create a privacy screen, and in every case the deer have stripped the greenery and girdled the bark from the trunks, killing the shrubs...this despite regular soakings with deer repellant.
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Thanks for that info. We don't have huge amounts of deer around here, and the few I see are pretty shy. Where I want to put these plants is right next to a fairly busy road, so I don't think there will much of a deer issue.
 
Groundpounder said:
Thanks for that info. We don't have huge amounts of deer around here, and the few I see are pretty shy. Where I want to put these plants is right next to a fairly busy road, so I don't think there will much of a deer issue.
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Har! Neither a road nor shyness will mitigate their inclination to cause damage. The deer do not like these (there in the cypress family and don't taste very good), but they'll eat things if they can't find anything else. The fact that there's a road and other urban pressures just increases the inclination that they'll be desperate enough to eat that.

By the way, if you ever have to cut one down (or have one die), the wood is really pretty. I made some stuff out of one I cut down in NJ years ago.
 
flyingron said:
Har! Neither a road nor shyness will mitigate their inclination to cause damage. The deer do not like these (there in the cedar family and don't taste very good), but they'll eat things if they can't find anything else. The fact that there's a road and other urban pressures just increases the inclination that they'll be desperate enough to eat that.
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We're in a rural area. Honestly, deer damage isn't very common around here. My wife has had a garden for 4 season now that has gone completely unmolested by deer or any other mammal. The picture I posted is about a half mile from my house.
 
Aka deer food when there is a lot of snow, especially in NH.
 
flyingron said:
Har! Neither a road nor shyness will mitigate their inclination to cause damage. The deer do not like these (there in the cypress family and don't taste very good), but they'll eat things if they can't find anything else.
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In my experience, deer don't eat spruce or pine trees, but a buck in rut won't mind destroying one to mark his territory.
 
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