Dwarf Arborvitae Spacing

 I am planning a small border of 2 Holmstrup Eastern Arborvitae (Dwarf
Arborvitae that gets only 6 feet tall) and 2 Rose Of Sharons. I want to
alternate the Arborvitaes and the Rose Of Sharons and I'd like to plant them
3 (on center) apart. Has anyone tried this plan with alternating Rose Of
Sharons and dwarf Arborvitae like Holmstrup?
Since they say the Holmstrup Arborvitaes get 2 to 3 feet wide I am thinking
that 3 foot centers would work good. I do plan to trim the Rose Of Sharons
(in Fall I would think) as I know they can get as big as you let them!

Thanks in advance for any opinions or advice.

Lou

 

I detest rose of sharon, it drops tons of seeds and sprouts up everywhere...
but I know some love them... anyway a hedge of evergreen alternating with
deciduous will look just awful, like something a retarded landscaper did.
Choose one or the other... I vote for arborvitae... before rose of sharon
I'd rather a trellis covered with poison ivy

 

Then you are missing out on a beautiful plant. Not all ROS behave that
way.
I have a single white with a red center, Red Heart. It never produces
seeds
or seedlings. I have had it for over 20 years. The hummingbirds love
it!

Emilie
NorCa

 

The neighbor behind me where I lived previously had four of those gross
mutant things planted right up against my 6' stockade fence... never pruned,
they got like 12' tall and overhung into my yard, dropping tons of those
awful seeds that did their best to ruin my lawn, and all my flower beds on
my side of my fence.  After five years of pleading very nicely for him to
prune one day I had enough of his spite work (I put the stockade fence up
because the miserable creep would start up like four really old lawn mowers
and just let them run unattended so it was two noisy to sit outdoors). It
was early spring and those monsters were just ready to bud out when I
GLEEFULLY gave them a good shower of Round Up... put an end to the whole
miserable affair.  He never ran his lawn mowers again.

 On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:57:39 -0500, "Lou Leciejewski"


Don't like the idea alternating evergreen with deciduous.  It probably
would not look good and these plants will require a different kind of
maintenance.  My ROS are now in full bloom, drawing in hundreds of
butterflies, bees, and hummers.   I planted my ROS about 24" apart and
they have filled inbetween over the years making a very nice summer
privacy hedge.  My hedge is about 90 feet long, 14 feet high, trimmed
back to 10 feet once a year.