Thuja Jantar (Golden American Arborvitae) // Bright, Very Colorful, Easy To Grow Evergreen

Welcome to Over-The-Vest Nurseries where we grow over 2,000 different varieties of outdoor garden plants, ones that have been especially selected for their performance and suitability for our region, that's the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states of the U.S. Lots of really good plants and if you'd like to find out more about them, can I suggest that you click and subscribe to this channel because we're posting new videos all the time and some of them are of exciting new selections that reach us from various parts of the world. Take for example this very colorful brilliantly colored in fact form of our Eastern Arborvitae, this is Thuya Yantar. Now I'm calling it Yantar because this has a European pronunciation. If you look at the name here in America we'd probably call it Yantar, and that kind of really brings me to the point about pronunciation of plant names. It really doesn't matter what way you pronounce them as long as you obviously get the name accurate, because when you're looking at a variety like this it's very important that you get the right one, because this is simply a really beautiful brilliantly colored conifer that will give you interest throughout the entire year and changes color too. Now during the summertime it will have a brilliant bright yellow color and all the time producing this lovely shapely habit and then as the temperatures begin to cool down and the days shorten you'll notice how the plants begin to take on a slightly orange tint, and then as they go into the depth of winter they actually start to take on a bright amber shade too, and that leads again back to the name because the name Yantar means amber in Polish. You see this was a selection that turned up on a nursery ran by Jakub Jabolinski in Lysomys in north central Poland. He found this to be a sport of the very commonly grown and highly admired shapely one called Emerald Green or Thuja Smarag. He found this as a sport and we really like it because of its bright color, because of its shapely habit, but also that in all the years that we've been looking at multiple sports, this is probably the most colorful and the best form that we've ever come across as a golden sport of Thuja Emerald Green. Now around about now you're probably wondering how fast does it grow, how big will it get? Well of course that is something that depends upon the growing conditions and the nutrition of the soil. Growing them here on the nursery we've noticed them to grow about six to eight inches maybe ten inches a year, and therefore over a period of time it's not unreasonable to expect these plants to get somewhere about six to ten foot high. That said, it has the capacity to grow taller than that, I would say perhaps somewhere around about 15 foot tall, but remember that this sort of Arborvitae responds really well to shearing, and if you wanted to, you could probably go in in early spring and then perhaps even during the growing season and give it a trim back, that will help to keep it extra shapely and bushy, it will also help to reduce the size of it, and so you'll be able to keep it as a smaller, more shapely, and certainly a very brightly colored addition to your garden. It's a plant that is very hardy to zone for, developed from a native species as I say, here's one that you can use either as a single specimen, you could use it in a group to make a very effective display, you could certainly use it as a screen or a hedge, and also it's a plant that really makes a very nice plant to put into a container too, something that you could put into a pot and stand by the front door, or indeed anywhere around your home, and it will produce this brilliant color right through the whole of the year. Easy to grow in a well-drained, and that's important, in a well-drained soil, in a sunny site, this is without doubt one of the most brilliantly colored forms of the Eastern Arborvitae, this is Thuya Yantar.