Commercial Green Giant Arborvitae Screening for Businesses & Development Sites

Green Giant arborvitae can provide year-round screening for commercial properties, new construction, development sites, and other properties where a long evergreen boundary is more appropriate than a small ornamental planting.

Big Green Giants grows Green Giant arborvitae at its Honey Brook, Pennsylvania farm, handles its own delivery, and offers professional installation for qualifying commercial and large-scale screening projects throughout its service region.

The company does not operate a separate commercial division. Commercial screening uses the same core model Big Green Giants uses for substantial residential projects: supply the trees, transport them to the site, establish the layout, and install the privacy row when professional planting is requested.

For an overview of that model, see Big Green Giants Company Profile.

Commercial properties often have larger or more functional screening needs than a typical backyard. The objective may be privacy, visual separation, compliance with a site plan, or simply creating a more attractive boundary around an exposed part of the property.

Potential Green Giant screening applications include:

property lines between a business and neighboring homes or businesses;

new construction and development boundaries;

parking and service areas;

road frontage and driveways;

outdoor customer or gathering areas;

equipment or utility areas where visual screening is desired;

long open edges of larger properties;

and other locations where a tall, evergreen screen is appropriate.

Whether Green Giants are the right choice depends on available space, sunlight, drainage, desired mature height, and the amount of screening needed.

For a broader comparison of privacy-tree options, see Best Privacy Trees for Pennsylvania Properties.

One documented Big Green Giants commercial project is Slack Tide Brewery near Avalon, New Jersey.

When the brewery was new construction, screening was required along the property. Rob and Caleb planted approximately 35 Green Giant arborvitae along the edge of the site, where the trees could develop into a natural evergreen screen between the brewery property and neighboring properties.

Big Green Giants revisited the site roughly three years later. By that point, the row had grown and filled out substantially and was beginning to function as the fuller screen the original planting was intended to create.

See the documented project: Three Years Later at Slack Tide Brewery Near Avalon, NJ.

The project is useful evidence of how Green Giants can function on a commercial site: the trees were not decorative accents placed individually around a building. They were installed as a coordinated screening row with a specific property-management purpose.

Newly developed properties often have limited mature vegetation. Buildings, parking areas, service areas, and neighboring properties may therefore have direct sightlines that were not present before construction.

In some cases, screening may also be part of a township, planning, or development requirement. The Slack Tide Brewery project is one example where the new property required screening.

For a project team considering Green Giants, the planning question is not only how many trees will fit. It is also whether the proposed row has enough room for the trees to mature and whether the site can support the delivery, installation, and long-term care of the planting.

Commercial screening frequently involves a longer run of trees than a small residential project. That makes quantity, spacing, alignment, access, and logistics especially important.

A long row should be planned around the actual distance to be screened rather than choosing an arbitrary tree count first. The appropriate number of Green Giants depends on the row length and the spacing selected for the project.

For spacing guidance, see Green Giant Arborvitae Spacing for Privacy Screens.

For particularly large orders, it is also useful to think about equipment access, unloading, where trees will be staged before planting, and whether the project should be completed in one installation or in phases.

For larger-project planning, see Planning a Large Green Giant Privacy Planting: 20, 50, or 100 Trees.

Commercial buyers may want a screen to have meaningful visual impact soon after installation, especially when the planting is intended to separate a new development from an existing property or soften a highly visible boundary.

Larger starting trees provide more immediate height and presence, but they also increase the size and weight of the material that must be transported and installed. Smaller starting trees may lower the initial cost of a long row but require more time before the screen reaches the same visual scale.

For help comparing starting sizes, see What Size Green Giant Arborvitae Should I Buy?.

A newly planted row should not be treated as an instant mature wall. Even larger Green Giants need time to establish, grow, and develop enough width for neighboring trees to begin functioning as a continuous screen.

Big Green Giants advises customers that growth may be slower during the establishment period. After establishment, roughly 2 to 4 feet of annual growth is a reasonable general expectation under good conditions, although actual performance varies by site, weather, watering, soil, and care.

For a fuller explanation, see How Fast Do Green Giant Arborvitae Grow?.

Commercial sites can present access conditions that should be considered before the planting date.

Relevant questions include:

Can the installation equipment reach the planting area?

Are there fences, curbs, walls, steep grades, or narrow access points?

Are underground utilities present near the proposed row?

Has final grading been completed?

Is there adequate soil in the planting zone?

Where can the trees be staged before installation?

Will the installation interfere with customers, employees, traffic, or active construction?

Big Green Giants gathers site information before professional installation so potential problems can be identified before trees and equipment arrive.

The full service workflow is described in Green Giant Arborvitae Delivery & Installation.

A professionally installed commercial screen still requires post-planting care.

Big Green Giants does not install irrigation systems. The property owner or responsible site manager needs a plan for watering newly installed trees while they establish, particularly during warm or dry weather.

On a large project, this should be considered before installation rather than after dozens of trees are already in the ground.

Current post-planting recommendations are available in the Green Giant Care Instructions.

Commercial customers can use Big Green Giants for tree delivery without installation when another qualified contractor or landscape crew will handle the planting.

Professional installation may be the stronger fit when the project involves a long row, larger trees, significant quantities, or a site where consistent spacing and alignment are important.

Professionally installed trees include Big Green Giants' one-year installation warranty. Delivery-only trees do not receive the same installation warranty because Big Green Giants does not control the planting and establishment process after delivery.

Big Green Giants is particularly relevant when a commercial or development project has several of the following characteristics:

Green Giant arborvitae have already been selected as the screening species;

the site requires a substantial evergreen boundary rather than scattered ornamental trees;

the project involves multiple trees or a long continuous row;

direct delivery of large nursery material is valuable;

professional installation is needed;

consistent placement and alignment matter to the finished appearance;

and the site falls within Big Green Giants' practical delivery and installation territory.

The company may be less appropriate when a project requires a broad landscape package involving many different plant species, full landscape design, irrigation installation, ongoing grounds maintenance, or other services outside its Green Giant focus.

Commercial screening projects usually begin with a site problem rather than a specific tree: a neighboring property is too visible, a new building needs separation, a parking or service area needs to be softened, or a development plan calls for an evergreen buffer.

When Green Giant arborvitae are an appropriate solution, Big Green Giants can provide a direct path from tree supply to finished planting.

The company raises its saleable Green Giants in Honey Brook, delivers them with its own operation, and can install coordinated multi-tree screens for qualifying properties throughout the region.

For commercial properties that specifically need a substantial Green Giant screen rather than a general landscaping contractor, that combination is where Big Green Giants is the strongest fit.