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Platycladus Orientalis Aurea Nana Compacta "Golden Oriental Arborvitae" 20Liter
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Platycladus Orientalis Aurea Nana Compacta "Golden Oriental Arborvitae" 20Liter
Product Details
Product Name: Platycladus orientalis ‘Aurea Nana Compacta’
Style: Dwarf Golden Evergreen Conifer / Compact Ornamental Landscape Shrub
📌 Product Description
The Platycladus orientalis ‘Aurea Nana Compacta’ is a compact ornamental evergreen conifer admired for its dense golden foliage and naturally rounded growth habit. This elegant dwarf shrub adds year-round colour, structure, and refined texture to gardens, pathways, patios, and decorative landscape designs.
Featuring tightly packed fan-like foliage in vibrant golden-yellow to lime-green tones, this slow-growing conifer creates a soft sculptural effect ideal for formal gardens, rockeries, borders, and container planting. Its compact form and bright evergreen colour make it a highly attractive feature plant for both residential and commercial landscapes.
Hardy and low-maintenance, this decorative conifer performs exceptionally well in structured gardens and modern outdoor spaces where compact evergreen form and colour are desired.
📏 Size & Specifications
- Correct Botanical Name: Platycladus orientalis ‘Aurea Nana Compacta’
- Common Names: Golden Oriental Arborvitae, Dwarf Golden Thuja, Compact Golden Conifer
- Plant Type: Evergreen dwarf conifer shrub
- Growth Habit: Dense compact rounded growth
- Foliage: Fine fan-like golden-yellow evergreen foliage
- Growth Rate: Slow to moderate-growing ornamental shrub
🏛️ Best Placement Conditions
- Location: Suitable for outdoor gardens and decorative containers
- Light Exposure: Prefers full sun to partial shade
- Surface: Best planted in well-draining garden soil, borders, rockeries, or feature pots
- Exposure: Ideal for formal gardens, pathways, courtyards, patios, and structured landscape designs
Maintenance
- Water regularly during establishment period
- Once established, relatively drought tolerant
- Prune lightly if shaping is required
- Prefers well-draining soil conditions
- Feed seasonally with balanced fertiliser for healthy foliage colour
- Mulch around base to help retain moisture and suppress weeds
🌼 Additional Benefits
- Attractive year-round golden evergreen foliage
- Compact naturally rounded growth habit
- Excellent low-maintenance landscape shrub
- Ideal for formal and structured gardens
- Suitable for decorative containers and borders
- Adds colour contrast and texture to landscapes
- Hardy and adaptable ornamental conifer
🌿 Ideal Uses
✔ Formal garden borders
✔ Decorative container planting
✔ Rockeries and small gardens
✔ Courtyard and patio landscaping
✔ Evergreen feature planting
✔ Structured and contemporary landscapes
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