When you welcome Mr. Bowling Ball™ Arborvitae into your garden, you can put away those shears, because he is the perfect round evergreen you have been looking for. Rather than clip, ending up with a lop-sided blob, just leave it to Mr. Bowling Ball™ to be a perfect sphere all the time, without needing even a touch from those shears. It will grow steadily into a round ball 3 feet tall, and 3 feet in diameter, in about 10 years, and add an inch or two each year after that. Use it in planters or boxes for that formal look, dot them around in garden beds as accents, or make a low hedge out of them. No matter how or where you grow it, this shrub will deliver the perfect sphere every time.
- Perfect spherical form without clipping
- Dense, ferny foliage is green all year round
- Grows steadily to 3 feet tall and 3 feet diameter
- Winter hardy even in zone 3
- Trouble free and very easy to grow
Grow Mr. Bowling Ball™ Arborvitae in full sun or with afternoon shade. This plant is super hardy, growing happily even in the cold of zone 3, and growing equally well across the country into zone 8. It grows best in rich, moist, well-drained soil, and it should be watered regularly during long dry periods. It has no pests or diseases of any significance, and since it never needs clipping it is virtually maintenance-free, yet always look neat and perfect. Surely the top spherical evergreen ever developed.
- Plant HardinessZones 3-8
- Mature Width3
- Mature Height3
- Soil ConditionsAverage
- SunlightFull Sun to Partial Shade
- Drought ToleranceModerate Drought Tolerance
Everyone loves those perfect round balls of green in the garden or in planters, but boy, do they take a lot of careful and regular clipping to develop and keep in perfect shape. At least they used to. Not anymore, because if you love round, but hate clipping, meet Mr. Bowling Ball™, the roundest and neatest evergreen you can imagine, who does it naturally, with no clipping required. Yes, literally as round as a bowling ball, this spherical shrub has soft, ferny foliage, and it always looks perfect for that neat, neat look.
Grow a pair in two pots to frame an entrance or use four to emphasis the corners of a terrace. Plant some among small shrubs or other evergreens of different shapes and forms to add a unique touch. Plant a row for a novel low hedge that needs no clipping, but always looks perfect. Whatever way you choose to use this versatile and remarkable plant, you are going to love having Mr. Bowling Ball™ in your garden – and your children will love him too.
Growing Mr. Bowling Ball™ Arborvitae Shrubs
Mr. Bowling Ball™ Arborvitae, to give him his full name, is a dense evergreen shrub, with fine, ferny foliage, which grows completely naturally into a round green ball, remaining as wide as it is tall for its entire life. It has foliage to the ground, Older plants can be trimmed, if you wish, to keep them small, and to give you the densest possible structure.