Best Privacy Trees for Spring Planting: Transform Your Landscape Before Summer

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Gorgeous Green Giant Arborvitae we installed to improve curb appeal. One of the best evergreen privacy trees for MD, DC, and VA.

Why Spring is one of the Best Times to Plant Privacy Trees Spring is one of the two best seasons for planting privacy trees, ensuring strong root establishment before the summer heat arrives. Homeowners looking to create a natural privacy screen and/or wind barrier should take advantage of this time when soil conditions are optimal … Continue reading Best Privacy Trees for Spring Planting: Transform Your Landscape Before Summer

Best Evergreen Windbreaks to Reduce Energy Costs

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Leyland cypress trees are one of the best evergreens for windbreaks to reduce energy costs.

Windbreaks, made from rows of evergreen trees, provide more than just privacy and beauty to your landscape. They serve as natural barriers against harsh winds, helping to protect your home, reduce heating/cooling costs, provide privacy, reduce noise, and even increase property value. For eco-conscious homeowners, investing in evergreen windbreaks is a sustainable solution with significant … Continue reading Best Evergreen Windbreaks to Reduce Energy Costs

Green Wealth: How Evergreen Trees Boost Property Values and Privacy

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Green Giant privacy screening can boost your property value and your health!

Various factors influence the value of a property, and one often overlooked yet significant contributor is the presence of trees. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, trees play a crucial role in elevating property values, particularly evergreen trees that offer year-round benefits. In the Mid-Atlantic region, including Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, homeowners are discovering the … Continue reading Green Wealth: How Evergreen Trees Boost Property Values and Privacy

The Green Giant Arborvitae: Excellent Choice for Privacy Screening

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Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae privacy screening between a home and a commercial building. A lush and affordable landscape tree for privacy. Check out our FAQs regarding evergreen trees.

When I think about how well the Green Giant Arborvitae has done its job as a privacy screen, the poem by Elizabeth Barnett Browning comes to mind. " How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." A beautiful green wall of Green Giant Arborvitae evergreen trees really does make me smile! I love … Continue reading The Green Giant Arborvitae: Excellent Choice for Privacy Screening

Green Giant Arborvitae: A Lush and Affordable Landscape

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Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae privacy screening between a home and a commercial building. A lush and affordable landscape tree for privacy. Check out our FAQs regarding evergreen trees.

Welcome to Pryor's Nursery, where we explore the wonders of the Green Giant Arborvitae tree—an absolute favorite in the world of landscaping and gardening. In this blog, we delve into the reasons behind the immense popularity of Green Giant Arborvitae trees, answering common questions and shedding light on the remarkable features that make them a … Continue reading Green Giant Arborvitae: A Lush and Affordable Landscape

How to Pick the Right Privacy Tree

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Ariel View of Pryor's Nursery, a 10 acre tree farm of fast growing evergreen trees for privacy screening. Perfect for backyard privacy, street privacy and around pools.

Privacy trees are almost always at the top of the list for homeowners moving into a new home or when new construction buildings go up around you. We all want to feel our home and garden are our own, and nothing does that better than evergreen privacy screens. Got nosey neighbors? Privacy trees are the … Continue reading How to Pick the Right Privacy Tree

Evergreen Christmas Tree Guide: What is the best?

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Decorated outdoor Christmas tree lit up.

When shopping for a Christmas tree at your local lot or tree farm, you’ll likely encounter many different types of evergreen Christmas trees. Picking out a perfect tree isn't easy. A tree's scent, color, strength of branches, shape, height, and needle retention all matter. Depending on where you live will determine what type of trees … Continue reading Evergreen Christmas Tree Guide: What is the best?

How Tall Are The Evergreen Trees We Grow Locally?

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Green Giant Evergreen Tree

The largest evergreen trees for privacy screening that we grow and transplant, are 15 feet tall Thuja Green Giant Arborvitaes. For almost 40 years we have successfully planted large green giant privacy screens throughout the Baltimore/Washington  area. Our green giant trees are grown from rooted cuttings at Pryor's Nursery in Damascus, Maryland.   On our website we … Continue reading How Tall Are The Evergreen Trees We Grow Locally?

Local Evergreen Tree Farm Celebrates 30 Years!

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Pryor's Nursery Aerial Back in the 1990's

Thirty years ago, in 1989, I bought a soybean field in Montgomery County, Maryland, to start the home of the Living Fence, an evergreen tree farm. Our contracting company, Earth Beautiful, Inc had been up and running for 9 years by then. Having already planted an enormous amount of evergreens for privacy screening at our … Continue reading Local Evergreen Tree Farm Celebrates 30 Years!

The Maryland Home and Garden Show

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Maryland Home Show Booth

Nice crowd at The Maryland Home and Garden show at the Timonium fairgrounds. It was great to meet 2 of the Pryor's Nursery VIP show ticket contest winners! And of course, 100s of people interested in privacy screening for their home inquired about the living fence. We had a sample of our evergreen trees at the show for everyone to see. The 7ft Green Giants ,10 ft tall Green Giant, a 7 ft Nellie Stevens Holly and a Leyland Cypress were on display in our show booth.