Three popular privacy trees are Green Giants (Thuja standishii x plicata), Nellie R. Stevens Hollies, and Junipers. Song: Homeward Artist: Scott Buckley
I planted (50) 9"-12" Thuja Green Giants in 2008. I dug out the holes and replaced the soil with big box stores top soil. They are very hardy trees and easy to grow. 100% success rate. The first few years they need daily watering. Deer do eat them but it's not their favorite. Moth balls around the trees took care of that. I accidentally mowed one flush to the ground and it still grew. Like most trees and plants they don't like their roots saturated in water. There was a low part of my yard water didn't drain from very well that killed 6 trees....root rot. The others are still there to this day. They grew about 2 feet a year. This year I planted (10) 9"-12" Thuja Green Giants. I did it like the instructions this time. 7 died and I'm still nursing the other 3. I recommend digging out the hole 3 times as wide and about 1" deeper than the root ball. Put 1" of top soil in and just a pinch of fertilizer on top of that. The tree goes next and while holding the tree fill the space around it with big box stores top soil and press it firm. The top of the root ball should be even with the ground then a little more top soil sprinkled and pressed firm. Another pinch of fertilizer then water thoroughly. Water every day in the morning. Watering at night tends to create mold and rot problems. This is how I planted the (50) and had 100% success.
@randyscrafts8575, I don't understand what you meant when you said that the second planting of 10 trees you "did it like the instructions"? What did you do different between the first plantings and the second plantings? How was the first plantings not done like the instructions?
THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! I thank you soooo much for making it! Just Brought 12 6 foot green giants from my property! getting them installed right now! This video gave me such peace of mind and excitement! thank you!!!
Thanks for the info. I planted 5 green giants this fall, about 3 feet tall, and recently had a buck rub off the upper limbs of one plant. I wrapped all 5 plants and hoping this plant will recover in the spring. The leader bark seems intact. Unfortunately we have a lot of deer pressure in my neighborhood but this is my first time dealing with buck rubs on my plants. They also damaged a weeping cherry tree planted next to the row of green giants.
Before I broke down and put up a welded wire fence a buck rubbed on one of our green giants and put a big gash in it. I'll post a video soon. It's healing nicely. It might not look pretty but you can try protecting younger plants with cages or just some tall rebar poking out of the soil around it since bucks seem to prefer a clear spot to do their rubbing. You've got my sympathy!
This is an excellent video. And I loved your narrating. Your rhythm and tone is very engaging. And the content very useful. Unfortunately for me I have some Nelly Stevens Hollies that I planted last summer 2020, but they were very small probably about a foot high. So it looks to me like it’s going to be a good six years maybe 10 years before I get some nice height on them to screen out my neighbor. I wish I had bought them bigger now.
@@mrparts Actually Nellie Stevens Holly is very fast growing. The first year they did not put on any height because they were getting established into the ground. I was impatient but I don’t believe I fertilized them when I planted them. Oops! That might partly explain the slow initial growth. But now in May 2021, more than a year after I planted them they have doubled in height. Most of this new growth has occurred in the past 6 weeks after I fertilized them , and I plan to fertilize them again with an organic fertilizer (Holly tone) in mid June.
I planted mine 2 years ago at about 3-4ft each and they are now all 8-10ft tall. Im 6ft and they are all about a foot or two taller than I can reach. Of course the tops aren’t full, but doesn’t take 4 years to get 3ft+ year growth
I’ve had mine for almost 12 years now. This year it looks like they are falling apart. The tops are droopy big branches are droopy. They are still totally green. How can I get them back to proper shape? We had almost no winter, so it isn’t snow or ice damage.
Bought 15 Arborvitaes (Brandon) yesterday, and your examples of deer nibbling makes me nervous. The deer here are generally are well behaved. Although, last year they ate a new mulberry sapling off twice (in the summer), and one year they striped a lot of bark off a 10 year old maple (in the winter.) Maybe the first couple of years I can cover the trees with burlap during the winter as a precaution. Thank you for the video. Interesting way to show the tree growth.
Remington makes a deer repellent… it’s called a model 700…. LOL… just kidding but you do seem to have a lot of deer… we have them in our area also but they won’t touch a green giant… I think they have enough of their natural food sources… most of the time when they are eating those types of shrubs it’s either because their population is too dense or they are stressed from harsh winter conditions.
Do one on the growth of Ivy for fast privacy growing on fences or even other plants that grow really fast and are evergreen. Because I (and probably lots of other people these days) am looking for the fastest most affordable growing privacy hedge i can possibly find... the perfect plant! O_o
I have 20 green giants in my backyard and just when some of them were starting to get some height to them, a buck came along and rubbed the hell out of trunks of several of them. Deer are a pain in the butt.
I planned 30 small green giant trees. The deer were absolutely destroying them quickly when the snow came. 30 fences would be very expensive! I wrapped them all in burlap to protect them. Working great.
Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful to see that the deer are still eating trees that are supposed to be deer resistant. We are considering green giants but we have a lot of deer that cross through our property. Now I'm second guessing if we should choose a different tree. I feel like we can't win with all the deer browsing. They at our hollies one year! If they are very hungry they will eat most plants.
I would still grow Green Giants if it's possible to give them some protection when needed. The only thing I never see them eating much of is native Viburnum.
If you want to keep the deer away try a pump up sprayer or a spray bottle and put some dish soap and water in them and spray your plants or trees the deer will leave them alone. Repeat after a rain, use warm water if you spray in the winter
We have a lot of open woods. The deer are the size of horses. I am going to fence them in during the winters. these trees really do well in full sun. I have 35 arborvitaes in my backyard. 1/2 of them are in full sun and 1/2 are in partial sun. The full sun tress are 25 feet tall. The partial suns are 10 feet tall. I have some 75 feet tall cotton woods. they are native to the area, but they are a nuisance to me. They continually shed tiny to very large branches and limbs. They need to disappear. Professional arborists want $10,000. I have been saving up to rent an aerial lift and a bobcat with a claw attachment. Thanks for your insight.
I hope the deer leave yours alone. Tree removal is so expensive. We have swamp maples all over our property. They're quite messy and depending on water supply, they can start dropping leaves all over the place as early as July. Thanks for your comment.
Question: So I have 7 of these. They are right on my property line and my neighbor doesn't want them to grow over to his side. Can I trim them flat like a wall? I've seen regular arborvitaes done that way but not sure if Thuja's are ok too. Thank You!
yeah those trees grow really fast I seen them on someones property as a natural fence they were really tiny like miniature christmas trees they used no protection from deer they planted like 30 and in less than 10 years they were huge and some were in Partial shade
The green giants came in containers, not metal or burlap. I read it is best to take it off so long as you wet all the soil in it so it doesn't crumble apart disturbing the root mass especially on a hot sunny day. Did you plant some?
My are like 12 years old. Make a Great Wall. However this year they are really starting to droop. The tops are bending to the side, and several big branches are suddenly hanging way lower. They are still completely green. They just look like crap. I don’t know what to do
Holly trees are about the only tree a deer won't eat at all , cedar tree they don't eat where I'm at but the bucks love to rub them . Really high concentrations of deer in my area nothing is safe except holly trees ,ferns and most bulb plants like tiger lillies,tulips etc.
What kind of holly? They nibble on Nellie Stevens here and rabbits love it even more. I have to protect the bottom from rabbits. Ferns are safe here too. :)
@@FumblingwithFlowers The ones I had were the upright type shaped like a Xmas tree (American Holly ?) most were 10 - 25 foot tall with branches to the ground with the very pointy leaves. Very heavy deer population here but those were never touched the 25 years been here in PA. Some of them get the red berries in fall others didn't. Every fall robins migrating thru would gorge themselves on the berries.
@@goaheadmakeourdayscooterpe9644 American holly must be the way to go. The few times I've seen it was quite expensive but I'm going to reconsider adding it.
In Texas you can acquire that privacy barrier with a deer resistant shrub... the Texas Sage. That sucker with grow to a large bush within 2 years. It can grow up to like 6 ft high and you can shape it into hedges. It's naturally round and requires very little water. It will bloom beautiful purple flowers all over when rain is in the forecast. Somehow this plant can detect changes in humidity and barometric pressure and starts to bloom. It handles extreme heat and cold. Best to cover it if temps get down to zero. You can trim it all the way down to the ground and it will regrow to it's original size within several months. Deer absolutely hate Texas Sage.
@@FumblingwithFlowers Another deer resistant privacy screen that grows super fast is the Chaste Tree. It has dark purple blooms and will grow to like 15 ft in just a few short years.
@@weskarcher483 That one I can grow and have two. I've seen it growing in more south New Jersey maybe 16 feet tall sandwiched (and protected) by Green Giants. Only drawback is it is very slow to break dormancy here.
I really like your evergreen choices and nice video... but I think they planted the Green Giants too close together, they really want to be at least 15' wide, I plant them at least 12' apart. I spray them with deer repellent the few years while they are tender, after that the deer leave them alone. I spray in early winter when the lawn is no longer a viable food source so late December and then again in Mid February... same for my Nellie Stevens, even more important,
Are you sure what your calling junipers are not actually in fact cedars? That is what we call them in Indiana and they are harvested for their insect resistant wood.
The ones I planted are Juniper chinensis. They are definitely similar though. To make matters more confusing, there's a Juniperus virginiana also known as the Eastern Red Cedar.
@@FumblingwithFlowers interesting. I have that dense foliage lighter green juniper and juniper ground covers and the deer steer clear. That and boxwood seem to be my only guarantees. Oh and the light green false cypress shrub are left alone too.
Green giants do horribly in Texas. The heat is just too intense to grow in direct sunlight. Deer will tear it up, especially in the cold months when they are rubbing their antlers everywhere. Your second choice is Nellie Stevens Hollies but don't leave those unprotected also, deer will eat all the needle point leaves off those too.
That doesn't work for me. Once I accidentally fed the deer with old bird seed. I never saw so many deer on the property coming for it. Then they nibbled on every single plant around the birdseed!
Lady your lucky that young buck you stomped your foot at wasn't in rut. Feb he was most likely past rut. Had he been in full rut he may have taken the challenge and tore you up.. you are female.. Deer will hurt you I saw a man that had to be medi-vacd at a game station yrs ago buck sliced him up like a butcher . You people think deer friendly or cute. Becareful
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I planted (50) 9"-12" Thuja Green Giants in 2008. I dug out the holes and replaced the soil with big box stores top soil. They are very hardy trees and easy to grow. 100% success rate. The first few years they need daily watering. Deer do eat them but it's not their favorite. Moth balls around the trees took care of that. I accidentally mowed one flush to the ground and it still grew. Like most trees and plants they don't like their roots saturated in water. There was a low part of my yard water didn't drain from very well that killed 6 trees....root rot. The others are still there to this day. They grew about 2 feet a year.
This year I planted (10) 9"-12" Thuja Green Giants. I did it like the instructions this time. 7 died and I'm still nursing the other 3.
I recommend digging out the hole 3 times as wide and about 1" deeper than the root ball. Put 1" of top soil in and just a pinch of fertilizer on top of that. The tree goes next and while holding the tree fill the space around it with big box stores top soil and press it firm. The top of the root ball should be even with the ground then a little more top soil sprinkled and pressed firm. Another pinch of fertilizer then water thoroughly. Water every day in the morning. Watering at night tends to create mold and rot problems. This is how I planted the (50) and had 100% success.
Thanks for this detailed comment! Someone recommended mothballs for a groundhog under our deck. I will check it out too.
@randyscrafts8575, I don't understand what you meant when you said that the second planting of 10 trees you "did it like the instructions"? What did you do different between the first plantings and the second plantings? How was the first plantings not done like the instructions?
Great video. You put a lot of time and research into it and it really shows.
I appreciate that, thank you so much!
i thought i was one of the only people to use google maps to watch trees grow! it's addicting!
You are not alone. :)
Lol I have never herd of this voodoo magic until today. Sounds very useful yes... you people pay crazy attention to detail.
Excellent video! Thank you for taking the time to film and post.
THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! I thank you soooo much for making it! Just Brought 12 6 foot green giants from my property! getting them installed right now! This video gave me such peace of mind and excitement! thank you!!!
How many feet apart did you plant them?
You have such a nice voice!
Thank you for the video
I have 2 Hollywood Junipers, planted spring of 2021 and the growth amazes me! They’re a great investment.
Awesome! Loved it! Very useful information!
Very helpful to see the time lapse. Thank you :)
Love it!! Thank you. I just bought 2 large arborvitaes and loooove them! So beautiful.
Wow great video, very informative
Thanks for the info. I planted 5 green giants this fall, about 3 feet tall, and recently had a buck rub off the upper limbs of one plant. I wrapped all 5 plants and hoping this plant will recover in the spring. The leader bark seems intact. Unfortunately we have a lot of deer pressure in my neighborhood but this is my first time dealing with buck rubs on my plants. They also damaged a weeping cherry tree planted next to the row of green giants.
Before I broke down and put up a welded wire fence a buck rubbed on one of our green giants and put a big gash in it. I'll post a video soon. It's healing nicely. It might not look pretty but you can try protecting younger plants with cages or just some tall rebar poking out of the soil around it since bucks seem to prefer a clear spot to do their rubbing. You've got my sympathy!
Thanks for the video! I didn't know Maps could do that, Its amazing.
Nicely done and your video really answered all of my questions.
I'm so glad. Thank you 👍
Great video
Great video, would like to get more timelapse and comparison of the pro versus con of Nellie versus Green. I'm a fan. Subscribed!
Great video thank you!! Just Planted some green giants
Excellent video! Thank you very much for making it.
Thanks! I'm so glad. 👍
Very good video thanks for doing this.
I just planted 30 Green giant Thuja here in the NE, they are about 5-6’ tall. Plated 5’ apart
Finally a youtube video that contains rich amounts of useful information in a compact format. Do more of these. I like it.
This is an excellent video. And I loved your narrating. Your rhythm and tone is very engaging. And the content very useful. Unfortunately for me I have some Nelly Stevens Hollies that I planted last summer 2020, but they were very small probably about a foot high. So it looks to me like it’s going to be a good six years maybe 10 years before I get some nice height on them to screen out my neighbor. I wish I had bought them bigger now.
Yes. Nelly S. hollies are beautiful but not fast growing at all. It’s usually best to buy them in the largest size you can afford to save time.
@@mrparts Actually Nellie Stevens Holly is very fast growing. The first year they did not put on any height because they were getting established into the ground. I was impatient but I don’t believe I fertilized them when I planted them. Oops! That might partly explain the slow initial growth. But now in May 2021, more than a year after I planted them they have doubled in height. Most of this new growth has occurred in the past 6 weeks after I fertilized them , and I plan to fertilize them again with an organic fertilizer (Holly tone) in mid June.
I've read it goes "sleep, creep, leap" for years 1, 2 and 3. Im crossing fingers
my hollies are about to "leap" over the next year.
The hedge row is gorgeous.
I agree. Green Giants can make a well maintained hedge.
your videos are wholesome I couldn’t stop laughing at you facing off with that deer
Ha ha, thanks. I guess deer are mostly scaredy cats unless it's a crazy rutting buck.
Misleading when the websites that sell them say 3-5 feet per year...they don't tell you it takes 4 years to reach that rate of growth
Mine never grew at 3'-5' a year. They we're about 2' a year.
Agree!!!
I planted mine 2 years ago at about 3-4ft each and they are now all 8-10ft tall. Im 6ft and they are all about a foot or two taller than I can reach. Of course the tops aren’t full, but doesn’t take 4 years to get 3ft+ year growth
I’ve had mine for almost 12 years now. This year it looks like they are falling apart. The tops are droopy big branches are droopy. They are still totally green. How can I get them back to proper shape? We had almost no winter, so it isn’t snow or ice damage.
@@jayd76page80water every other day + some fertilizer.
Awesome...I live near the beach and bay, but so wish I lived where it snows....I know most people would gladly trade places but I just love the snow.
Thank you! My current thinking is that every location has pros and cons.
Wow! Nice!
Bought 15 Arborvitaes (Brandon) yesterday, and your examples of deer nibbling makes me nervous. The deer here are generally are well behaved. Although, last year they ate a new mulberry sapling off twice (in the summer), and one year they striped a lot of bark off a 10 year old maple (in the winter.) Maybe the first couple of years I can cover the trees with burlap during the winter as a precaution. Thank you for the video. Interesting way to show the tree growth.
Thank you for your comment. Good luck with your trees and let us know how it goes!
I find the best way to discourage that behavior is to shoot them and leave the body there as a warning to the others.
Amazing Video! Great Help. What is a good price for them? Are they hard to plant?
Where is the best place I can buy Thuja Green Giants commercially/wholesale?
Nice video, I just bought 10 of them
Remington makes a deer repellent… it’s called a model 700…. LOL… just kidding but you do seem to have a lot of deer… we have them in our area also but they won’t touch a green giant… I think they have enough of their natural food sources… most of the time when they are eating those types of shrubs it’s either because their population is too dense or they are stressed from harsh winter conditions.
Thank you for the video
I think I should buy more of them 🤔
It's a gorgeous tree, I think and all year round. My pine tree looks sad but my green giants are still fluffy and pretty much green all winter.
We’re planting a row of green giants this spring. Can’t wait. And yes stay away from arborvitaes if you have deer
I'm excited for you. I'd still spray them with deer repellent at least in the first year or put a cage around them if you have deer.
Do one on the growth of Ivy for fast privacy growing on fences or even other plants that grow really fast and are evergreen. Because I (and probably lots of other people these days) am looking for the fastest most affordable growing privacy hedge i can possibly find... the perfect plant! O_o
Ivy sounds like a good idea. Some people say if you've got enough sun, climbing roses could be great for privacy too.
I have 20 green giants in my backyard and just when some of them were starting to get some height to them, a buck came along and rubbed the hell out of trunks of several of them. Deer are a pain in the butt.
Where is the cheapest place to buy these?
I planned 30 small green giant trees. The deer were absolutely destroying them quickly when the snow came. 30 fences would be very expensive! I wrapped them all in burlap to protect them. Working great.
I'm glad you're winning. Deer are no joke in some neighborhoods.
Luv my green giants!!!
Wish i could afford 37 lol
Look into Cypress. They're less expensive and fast growing. Just sayin.
anyone try the mini? do they grow fast?
Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful to see that the deer are still eating trees that are supposed to be deer resistant. We are considering green giants but we have a lot of deer that cross through our property. Now I'm second guessing if we should choose a different tree. I feel like we can't win with all the deer browsing. They at our hollies one year! If they are very hungry they will eat most plants.
I would still grow Green Giants if it's possible to give them some protection when needed. The only thing I never see them eating much of is native Viburnum.
If you want to keep the deer away try a pump up sprayer or a spray bottle and put some dish soap and water in them and spray your plants or trees the deer will leave them alone. Repeat after a rain, use warm water if you spray in the winter
Thank you for feeding the deer.
We have a lot of open woods. The deer are the size of horses. I am going to fence them in during the winters. these trees really do well in full sun. I have 35 arborvitaes in my backyard. 1/2 of them are in full sun and 1/2 are in partial sun. The full sun tress are 25 feet tall. The partial suns are 10 feet tall. I have some 75 feet tall cotton woods. they are native to the area, but they are a nuisance to me. They continually shed tiny to very large branches and limbs. They need to disappear. Professional arborists want $10,000. I have been saving up to rent an aerial lift and a bobcat with a claw attachment. Thanks for your insight.
I hope the deer leave yours alone. Tree removal is so expensive. We have swamp maples all over our property. They're quite messy and depending on water supply, they can start dropping leaves all over the place as early as July. Thanks for your comment.
Question: So I have 7 of these.
They are right on my property line and my neighbor doesn't want them to grow over to his side. Can I trim them flat like a wall? I've seen regular arborvitaes done that way but not sure if Thuja's are ok too. Thank You!
Update for those who have deer. These are supposed to be resistant but they are not! Just sayiing.
I planted a Green Giant last year and it’s leaning a bit. Should I dig it up or will it straighten itself up?
If the tree isn't huge, I'd try to sink a shovel down under it, move the soil and correct it. Happy spring!
With good sun, proper moisture and mulch and fertilizer they can easily grow 5' a year... after the first year or two.
I like the junior green giants size , can I trim it to keep it small in the future ?thank you!!
You can trim it but it's a lot of work. If you want something small, there are better choices out there.
If you want an arborvitae that stays small get an emerald green or beauty. Same thing but caps out at around 12ft
Really informative on the time lapse. Are these planted 5 ft apart?
The Green Giants look very close together in the hedge but I can't say for sure without a measuring tape.
Never thought of using google maps to see plants grow 😀
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you are much more tolerant of the deer than i could be, GOOGLE really has our lives at their fingertips. Good video!
Being close to a city, we're basically forced to tolerate deer to some degree. Thank you for your comment!
do they have the potential to be invasive though? since Deer dont eat them?
They don't self seed or spread so that makes them safe.
Is there a way to keep them 15 ft max?
get the smaller variety.
yeah those trees grow really fast I seen them on someones property as a natural fence they were really tiny like miniature christmas trees they used no protection from deer they planted like 30 and in less than 10 years they were huge and some were in Partial shade
Green giants are impressive for sure.
Great video is that your real voice or computer? Because you voice is so cute if its real.
how do you find deer with antlers I rarely see a male deer
I see way more females than males here.
I have some. 1st year a foot. 2nd year a foot. 3rd year 3 feet. 4th year space.
Do you remove the burlap? How about the metal grate?
The green giants came in containers, not metal or burlap. I read it is best to take it off so long as you wet all the soil in it so it doesn't crumble apart disturbing the root mass especially on a hot sunny day. Did you plant some?
@@FumblingwithFlowers yes. 8 to 10 ft tall.
actually I liked the quite in this video
are Green Giants hybrids?
My are like 12 years old. Make a Great Wall. However this year they are really starting to droop. The tops are bending to the side, and several big branches are suddenly hanging way lower. They are still completely green. They just look like crap. I don’t know what to do
Did they ever recover?
@@FumblingwithFlowers they did. I got some miracle grow and gave them a good feeding. It took a few weeks but they came back
Cypress is another fast growing tree. I've never grown them but may soon. Cypress are less expensive than the Thuja Green Giant.
I think Green Giant is prettier but Cypress are definitely an option too. Thanks for your comment!
Holly trees are about the only tree a deer won't eat at all , cedar tree they don't eat where I'm at but the bucks love to rub them . Really high concentrations of deer in my area nothing is safe except holly trees ,ferns and most bulb plants like tiger lillies,tulips etc.
What kind of holly? They nibble on Nellie Stevens here and rabbits love it even more. I have to protect the bottom from rabbits. Ferns are safe here too. :)
@@FumblingwithFlowers The ones I had were the upright type shaped like a Xmas tree (American Holly ?) most were 10 - 25 foot tall with branches to the ground with the very pointy leaves. Very heavy deer population here but those were never touched the 25 years been here in PA. Some of them get the red berries in fall others didn't. Every fall robins migrating thru would gorge themselves on the berries.
@@goaheadmakeourdayscooterpe9644 American holly must be the way to go. The few times I've seen it was quite expensive but I'm going to reconsider adding it.
In Texas you can acquire that privacy barrier with a deer resistant shrub... the Texas Sage. That sucker with grow to a large bush within 2 years. It can grow up to like 6 ft high and you can shape it into hedges. It's naturally round and requires very little water. It will bloom beautiful purple flowers all over when rain is in the forecast. Somehow this plant can detect changes in humidity and barometric pressure and starts to bloom. It handles extreme heat and cold. Best to cover it if temps get down to zero. You can trim it all the way down to the ground and it will regrow to it's original size within several months. Deer absolutely hate Texas Sage.
Thanks for the info about that very interesting plant. It's gorgeous!
@@FumblingwithFlowers Another deer resistant privacy screen that grows super fast is the Chaste Tree. It has dark purple blooms and will grow to like 15 ft in just a few short years.
@@weskarcher483 That one I can grow and have two. I've seen it growing in more south New Jersey maybe 16 feet tall sandwiched (and protected) by Green Giants. Only drawback is it is very slow to break dormancy here.
I really like your evergreen choices and nice video... but I think they planted the Green Giants too close together, they really want to be at least 15' wide, I plant them at least 12' apart.
I spray them with deer repellent the few years while they are tender, after that the deer leave them alone. I spray in early winter when the lawn is no longer a viable food source so late December and then again in Mid February... same for my Nellie Stevens, even more important,
I agree with you. :)
Sounds like it’s deer season to me…
Do leyland cypress
Are you sure what your calling junipers are not actually in fact cedars? That is what we call them in Indiana and they are harvested for their insect resistant wood.
The ones I planted are Juniper chinensis. They are definitely similar though. To make matters more confusing, there's a Juniperus virginiana also known as the Eastern Red Cedar.
Eastern red cedar are actually juniper trees. She's right.
@@FumblingwithFlowers interesting. I have that dense foliage lighter green juniper and juniper ground covers and the deer steer clear. That and boxwood seem to be my only guarantees. Oh and the light green false cypress shrub are left alone too.
You could always plant an oleander with the baby green giant and those deer will stay far away from that tree.
Oleander is pretty! Our zone 6 is too cold for it though.
Deer have destroyed so many of my plants I took up hunting last year. 5 dead deer later and I'm slightly optimistic about 2021.
Nice!! And they also taste delicious
@@JJD-9403 absolutely! I had a deer egg and cheese breakfast burrito on the way to work this morning!
@@brianbarnes9635 sounds amazing. I want one lol
Green giants do horribly in Texas. The heat is just too intense to grow in direct sunlight. Deer will tear it up, especially in the cold months when they are rubbing their antlers everywhere. Your second choice is Nellie Stevens Hollies but don't leave those unprotected also, deer will eat all the needle point leaves off those too.
Just buy a bunch of hay for the winter to feed the deer. If they are sated / not hungry, they are not gonna eat the trees.
That doesn't work for me. Once I accidentally fed the deer with old bird seed. I never saw so many deer on the property coming for it. Then they nibbled on every single plant around the birdseed!
WTF, you can do a time lapse on people's houses using google maps? That's just messed up.
Google will blur your house if you want to hide it for some reason. That might cause the Streisand effect though.
Deer ate mine this year....
I'm sorry that happened. Sometimes it's very frustrating trying to grow something.
Just start deer hunting
I respect responsible hunters but I'm not a hunter and not in an area where it is allowed.
@@FumblingwithFlowers ok, ya I respect responsible non hunters as well
why would anyone plant a store bought tree way out in the woods. Good luck watering.
It's at the wooded edge which borders our yard. I watered it exactly two times and it's surprisingly been fine where it is.
@@FumblingwithFlowers Great. planting around bigger trees blocks light and makes them spindly.
deer are rats with antlers........
Ha!
Lady your lucky that young buck you stomped your foot at wasn't in rut. Feb he was most likely past rut.
Had he been in full rut he may have taken the challenge and tore you up.. you are female..
Deer will hurt you I saw a man that had to be medi-vacd at a game station yrs ago buck sliced him up like a butcher . You people think deer friendly or cute. Becareful