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Thuja Green Giant

Thuja Green Giant

The Thuja Green Giant is a majestic evergreen known for its lush, rich green foliage, graceful pyramidal shape, and remarkable resilience.

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Thuja Green Giant Treebute

A Living Symbol of Strength, Shelter, and Lasting Love

The Thuja Green Giant offers dense, rich green foliage that holds its color through every season, even in the depth of winter. Known as the tree of life, this hardy evergreen becomes a living memorial you can nurture and watch grow, year after year.

Each Treebute is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home. Many people find that the simple act of planting and nurturing a tree gives their hands something purposeful to do during grief, creating a meaningful connection that continues to grow year after year.

What Happens After You Order

Step 1

Your tree is prepared and shipped with care from our nursery.

Step 2

Your kit arrives ready to plant, with your healthy tree, care guide, and personalized memorial message.

Step 3

Follow the simple steps to plant your living memorial, whenever the time feels right.

Step 4

Care for your tree, and watch it grow over the years.

Why You'll Love the Thuja Green Giant

  • Year-Round Beauty: Its dense, vibrant evergreen foliage stays lush throughout every season, creating a peaceful backdrop that never fades with the changing months.
  • A Symbol of Strength and Endurance: Evergreen trees have long represented resilience, protection, and everlasting remembrance, making the Thuja Green Giant a meaningful way to honor someone whose memory continues to live on.
  • Fast Growing and Rewarding: One of the fastest-growing evergreen trees available, the Thuja Green Giant quickly develops into a beautiful living tribute that becomes more impressive with every passing year.
  • Easy to Grow: This hardy tree adapts to many soil types, naturally maintains its attractive shape, and requires very little pruning, making it an excellent choice for both experienced and first-time gardeners.
  • Creates a Place to Remember: As the tree matures, it provides a peaceful outdoor space that many families return to throughout the seasons to reflect, celebrate memories, and feel connected to those they love.
  • Low Maintenance and Hardy: Disease-resistant and drought-tolerant once established. Thrives in zones 5-8, from chilly winters to scorching summers. Deer-resistant and virtually problem-free.

Each Treebute Kit Includes

✓   Hardy Thuja Green Giant tree (size you select)
✓    Step by step planting and watering care guide
✓    Personalized memorial message

➕ Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

○ Treebute® cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if and when you're ready)

     Many customers plant without ashes, and that's just as meaningful.

One thoughtfully packaged kit. Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Nurturing Your Tribute Tree

Even if you're new to planting, the Thuja Green Giant is remarkably forgiving and rewarding with simple care.

  • Light: a spot with full sun to partial shade, with at least six hours of light a day, is ideal.
  • Water: keep the soil evenly moist while your tree settles in, watering when the top inch or two feels dry. Avoid soggy soil or standing water.
  • That is it: the Thuja Green Giant is hardy and forgiving once established. It needs little more than the right spot and steady water through its first seasons.

Each moment caring for your tree becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes – The Treebute® Difference

For those who wish to incorporate cremation ashes, whether a person's or a pet's, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture offsets the naturally high pH and sodium of ashes, creating a safe, nurturing foundation that helps your tree thrive.

Because the Thuja Green Giant is especially sensitive to salt, this gentle soil blend is a thoughtful step if you choose to plant with ashes.

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes. This is simply another gentle way to keep someone close.

A Living Memorial That Grows With You

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. The Thuja Green Giant offers something lasting, a living memorial that grows stronger every year while creating a peaceful place to return to through every season.

The act of planting creates meaning. The growth creates hope. The tree creates a place to remember.

Plant Specifications:

Botanical Name:
Thuja plicata x standishii 'Green Giant'
Growth Rate Value:
Fast
Mature Height Value:
30-50 ft.
Mature Width Value:
30 ft.
Sunlight Value:
Full-Part Sun
Does Not Ship To:
AZ, OR
Growing Zones:
5-8 outdoors

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What if they're not ready to plant right away?

The kit includes simple instructions to care for your tree until planting time. Many customers plant on a significant date, a birthday, an anniversary, or another day that feels right.

What's included in a Treebute Kit?

Each kit includes a young, healthy Thuja Green Giant tree, a step-by-step planting and watering care guide, and a personalized memorial message. One thoughtfully packaged kit, everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Do I need ashes to use a Treebute Kit?

No. A Treebute Kit is a complete living memorial with or without cremation ashes. It works beautifully for a person or a pet either way. The cremation safe organic soil blend is an optional add-on for those who want to incorporate ashes, and many families plant without them.

How much space does it need, and where should I plant it?

The Thuja Green Giant is an outdoor tree that grows into a tall evergreen, reaching 40 to 60 feet over time with a spread of 12 to 18 feet. Choose an open, sunny spot in the ground where it has room to grow. Planted in a row, it also makes a living privacy screen or windbreak. It is not suited to indoor or long term container growing.

Is the Thuja Green Giant safe around pets?

The Thuja Green Giant is widely planted in yards with pets, but like many evergreens it contains natural compounds that can upset a pet's stomach if the foliage is chewed or eaten. It is best to discourage pets from nibbling on it. If you are planting a memorial for a pet who shares the yard with other animals, place it where curious mouths are less likely to reach, and speak with your veterinarian if you have any concerns.

Is a Treebute Kit a good sympathy gift to send someone?

Yes. A living tree is a meaningful alternative to flowers that fade. It arrives ready to plant with a personalized message, so the recipient receives a tribute they can hold, plant, and watch grow. It is a thoughtful way to turn sympathy into something lasting.

Can I plant ashes without any special soil treatment?

We strongly advise against it and doing so will void the Warranty. Planting cremation ashes directly with a tree, without proper treatment, can stress or even kill the plant. The high sodium and pH levels create conditions that are hostile to root development. If you want your memorial tree to thrive for years to come, using the Treebute Organic Soil Blend is essential when incorporating ashes.

What makes Treebute different from other memorial tree options?

Treebute is designed to be planted at home, in your own yard, patio, or indoor space. Unlike distant memorial forests where a tree is planted somewhere you may never visit, a Treebute grows right where you can see it. It becomes a gentle, living presence in your daily life.

Every kit includes a healthy tree of your choice, clear planting and care instructions, and the option to add scientifically formulated soil for safe ash incorporation. And our team understands that every memorial is deeply personal.

How is this different from having a tree planted in a forest?

Forest donation programs plant something far away and send a card. A Treebute Kit delivers a real, living plant to your door, or to your recipient's door, so it can be planted and tended at home and seen every day. It becomes part of daily life, not a distant certificate.