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    Plants We Love

    Dec 26, 2018 3 minutes
    by Meghan Shinn

    FIRE CHIEF ARBORVITAE

    THUJA OCCIDENTALIS ‘CONGABE’

    Fire Chief arborvitae is a small evergreen shrub with a compact, round shape and foliage that offers different colors in different seasons. The fine-textured evergreen foliage is bronze-orange at its tips year-round, but it takes on more red tones in the fall. In spring the new growth is a bright yellow.

    HABIT: Fire Chief arborvitae is a compact evergreen shrub that slowly grows to just two to four feet tall and wide.

    The species is a tall tree known as American

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