Tui appeared in Siberia in the second half of the last century.There she was brought and were able to grow in their fields, scientists and Pashkevich Osipov.Homeland Tui - the southern part of the eastern North American forests.But some species grow on the outskirts of the northern United States and Canada.Often they can be seen even on cold marshy soils.It is from these plants were taken for growing seedlings in a cold Siberian climate.Western arborvitae in Siberia caught on pretty well.This plant is characterized by frost.Tui - survivor, life span can reach 150 years.Wood undemanding to soil quality and well tolerated haircut crown.Most western thuja used to create hedges.
Thuja occidentalis - either monoecious tree reaching 20 meters in height, or, at least, - bush.Crohn's dense, compact.Young plant has a conical shape, with the age of the branches grow and arborvitae takes the shape of an egg, dropping branches to the ground.The bark of young red-brown, smooth and supple, and later becomes a light brown color and is easily separated ribbons.Thuja occidentalis has a summer bright green shiny needles, winter it becomes brownish-green.The period of her life - 3 years.Then the needles are shed with small branches during the "vetkopada."
To Thuja in Siberia has taken root, amateur gardeners must first make some efforts.First, you must purchase zhiznestoyky sapling.The plant must be strong, then there is a chance that the Thuja grow.Price seedlings depends on the degree of development.Secondly, the landing must be performed correctly.Plants should be planted no closer than 0.5 meters of each other.Planting depth - from half a meter to 80 cm. It depends on the size of the coma of land on the seedlings and the diameter and height of the crown.In any case, the root collar should be at ground level.Drainage make to the underlying clays or tubes (in a swamp) with a thickness of 15 to 25 cm.
In the first month after planting thuja should be watered once a week (10 liters per plant), and in the absence of precipitation dozhdevat as plant loves humidityand on dry soils thins.Loose soil at the stem should be shallow - up to 10 cm, because Thuja has shallow root system.It is advisable to cover the ground of small chips or peat (layer 7 centimeters) since a young arborvitae in Siberia may freeze during the cold period.In the first winter is better to arrange shelter for the young.Needles young plants should be protected from sunburn in spring and summer, closing branches paper or spruce branches.In the spring you want to remove all dry on the plant shoots.
Many amateur gardeners acquire the fifth western to create different shapes of trees on the site - a kind of sculpture.Cut the plant can be carried out only at the adult plant to 1/3 of the length of flight, and thus, for example, spherical arborvitae can be transformed only in the age of 10-15 years.Adult plants do not require such careful care.About 1 in every 2 years thuja western feed.In dry periods the ground from the trunk watered, mulch and loose.Tuya is resistant to harmful atmospheric emissions, it can be grown even close to industrial sites.It goes well in plantings with spruce, larch and cypress.
