{"id":6833,"date":"2014-10-19T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:23:11","slug":"evergreens-for-wet-soggy-soils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/10\/19\/evergreens-for-wet-soggy-soils\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreens For Wet Soggy Soils"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emerald\u2122 arborvitae at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Gastonia, NC<\/p><\/div>\n

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Most needle evergreens falter in moist soggy soils. These sites usually have a heavy clay or fine particle sand content. Some arborvitaes (Thuja spp.)<\/i> and Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides<\/em>) tolerate temporary wet soggy conditions better than most evergreens (USDA hardiness zones 3-8).\u00a0An assortment of shapes, sizes and colors are available. All are U.S. natives.<\/p>\n

Eastern arborvitae (T. occidentalis<\/i>) tolerates\u00a0 dry to boggy wet sites. Emerald\u2122 and ‘DeGroot Spire’ is\u00a0two popular favorites, growing 12-15 feet or\u00a08 feet tall respectively over 15-20 years. The scale- like foliage is uniquely twisted and spiraled. ‘Hetz Midget’ or ‘Tiny Tim’ are dwarf globe or ball forms that\u00a0grow 12 inches tall and 16 inches wide. The light green scaly foliage turns\u00a0bronze\u00a0over winter.<\/p>\n

Western arborvitae (T. plicata<\/i>)) also\u00a0tolerates tight wet soils.\u00a0It\u00a0grows\u00a0tall and is\u00a0fast-growing with a tightly pyramidal growth habit. Most popular is the hybrid\u00a0‘Green Giant’ (T. plicata<\/i> x T. standishii<\/i>) cultivar. Summer foliage is dark glossy green and bronzes over winter. Green Giant grows to a mature height of 50-60 feet tall\u00a0and 8-10 feet wide. For something very different, \u2018Whipcord\u2019 is a dwarf cultivar\u00a0with unusual thread-like branches and an arching plant habit. It grows to only 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide in 10 years.<\/p>\n

Atlantic white cedar (C. thyoides<\/i>) (zones 5-9) is often\u00a0observed growing on soggy sandy sites, but dislike<\/strong>\u00a0clay soils. Winter foliage turns a deep plum color and back to green by the start of spring.<\/p>\n

Three popular selections of C. thyoides<\/i>\u00a0include:<\/p>\n

‘Rubicon’, aka ‘Red Star’\u00a0– upright dense form with star-like foliage (6 feet tall by\u00a02 feet wide).<\/p>\n

‘Heatherbun’ – compact, globe-shaped form (6 to 8 feet tall by 4-5 feet wide).<\/p>\n

\u2018Shiva\u2019 – dwarf multi-stemmed form with\u00a0upright spreading branches and silvery lacy foliage\u00a0(5 feet tall\u00a0by 4 feet wide) .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Most needle evergreens falter in moist soggy soils. These sites usually have a heavy clay or fine particle sand content. Some arborvitaes (Thuja spp.) and Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) tolerate temporary wet soggy conditions better than most evergreens (USDA hardiness zones 3-8).\u00a0An assortment of shapes, sizes and colors are available. All are U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,809,868,144,617,604,627,843,777,630,7,231,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}