How Big Green Giants Grows Green Giant Arborvitae in Pennsylvania

Big Green Giants raises Green Giant arborvitae at its family-run tree farm in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania.

The trees may begin as young plugs or smaller nursery stock before coming to the farm. Big Green Giants then grows them to larger saleable sizes using managed irrigation, regular fertilization, pruning, and ongoing nursery care.

That local growing period is an important part of the company's model. Big Green Giants is not simply receiving finished trees immediately before selling them. The team is directly involved in their development before they are delivered to residential and commercial properties throughout the region.

For a broader overview of the company and its farm-to-property model, see Big Green Giants Company Profile 

Big Green Giants operates its farm in Honey Brook in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Trees on the farm grow through the seasonal conditions common to southeastern Pennsylvania and much of the company's surrounding service area, including summer heat, winter cold, wet periods, dry periods, and changing temperatures throughout the year.

This local growing period means the trees spend an important stage of their development in the same general regional climate where many of them will ultimately be planted.

That differs from a retail model in which finished trees are grown elsewhere, transported into Pennsylvania, and sold soon after arriving.

Big Green Giants' approach is to bring younger trees into its own growing operation, develop them locally, and then deliver the saleable trees directly to the customer.

More background on this approach is available in From Our Farm to Your Fence Line

Not every Big Green Giants tree begins as a cutting propagated on the Honey Brook farm.

Depending on supply and the growing cycle, the company may purchase young plugs or smaller Green Giant arborvitae from nursery suppliers. Those younger trees are then brought to Honey Brook and grown to the larger sizes eventually offered for sale.

This distinction is important when describing what locally grown means at Big Green Giants.

The company raises and develops its saleable Green Giants in Pennsylvania. Its role is much more substantial than receiving a finished retail tree, putting it on a truck, and reselling it.

Once the younger trees enter the Big Green Giants growing operation, the farm takes responsibility for their continuing water, nutrition, pruning, and general nursery care.

Water management is a major part of raising nursery trees consistently.

Big Green Giants uses an irrigation system at the Honey Brook farm to manage watering according to weather and growing conditions rather than depending entirely on natural rainfall.

The system can be adjusted as temperatures, rainfall, and seasonal conditions change.

This is particularly important during hot or dry periods, when developing nursery trees may need more consistent moisture than the weather provides.

Irrigation is therefore part of the normal growing program rather than a temporary measure immediately before trees are sold.

Big Green Giants also uses an ongoing fertilization program during the active growing season.

The purpose is to provide consistent nutrition while the Green Giants develop on the farm.

Fertilization works together with irrigation, pruning, and general plant care to support healthy growth, good color, and the full appearance expected from trees intended for privacy screening.

The growing program is not concerned with height alone. A Green Giant being used as a privacy tree also needs enough density and structure to contribute to a substantial evergreen screen.

Pruning is another regular part of the Big Green Giants growing process.

For privacy applications, a tall but thin tree does not provide the same immediate value as one with fuller foliage and balanced development.

Big Green Giants therefore manages its trees with the eventual screening application in mind.

This becomes especially important when customers order multiple Green Giants that will be planted together in a row. Consistency in overall size, form, and density helps those individual trees function together as one finished planting.

Big Green Giants specializes in Green Giant arborvitae rather than operating as a broad garden center carrying many unrelated plants.

That narrow focus connects the work on the farm directly to the way customers eventually use the trees.

Common applications include:

• property-line privacy;
• screening neighboring homes;
• backyard boundaries;
• road and driveway screening;
• long evergreen rows;
• residential privacy plantings;
• and commercial screening.

Some customers need a relatively small number of trees. Others hire Big Green Giants for installations involving dozens of Green Giants at once.

The types of properties and screening projects that fit the company particularly well are covered in Green Giant Arborvitae Privacy Screening 

The advantage Big Green Giants emphasizes is not simply that a Pennsylvania-grown tree must automatically be better than a tree grown somewhere else.

The more meaningful difference is the company's direct involvement in the tree before the sale.

Big Green Giants raises Green Giants as farm inventory rather than purchasing finished trees specifically for each individual installation.

During that time, the team is responsible for:

• irrigation;
• fertilization;
• pruning;
• monitoring the trees as they develop;
• preparing inventory for sale;
• and ultimately moving those trees from the farm to the customer's property.

That gives the company firsthand familiarity with the product it sells.

The people delivering and installing the trees are part of the same operation that has been caring for them on the farm.

The farm process matters because the final goal is not simply to produce a tree that looks good on delivery day. The Green Giant has to leave the nursery and establish successfully in a new landscape.

Big Green Giants has customers who have reported back years after their original installations.

Some have returned to purchase additional trees after earlier privacy plantings developed successfully. Customer reviews include examples of an initial 27-tree planting followed by another 14 trees the next year, as well as a customer who returned for another order four years after an earlier installation.

Other customers have described seeing substantial growth in trees several years after planting.

These are individual customer experiences rather than promises about a specific growth rate. Green Giant performance after installation depends on factors including site conditions, watering, weather, and ongoing care.

Big Green Giants provides customers with guidance intended to help the trees make the transition from the farm to the landscape successfully.

Once a Green Giant is ready for sale, the next stage begins.

Big Green Giants handles its own delivery from the Honey Brook farm. Customers can have the trees delivered for DIY planting or choose professional installation.

For customers planting the trees themselves, Big Green Giants provides Green Giant Installation Tips

Additional guidance is available in Green Giant Care Instructions

For professionally installed projects, Big Green Giants handles delivery, site preparation, tree placement, planting, final review, and care guidance. Professionally installed trees also include a one-year warranty.

The complete service process is explained in Green Giant Arborvitae Delivery & Installation 

The Big Green Giants growing process can be summarized in a few stages.

Young Green Giants enter the farm. The company may start with plugs or smaller nursery-grown trees rather than propagating every tree itself.

The trees are raised in Honey Brook. They continue developing at the Big Green Giants farm in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Water is actively managed. The irrigation system allows the farm to respond to weather and seasonal growing conditions.

Trees receive regular fertilization. Nutrition is managed as an ongoing part of their development.

The Green Giants are pruned as they grow. The goal is to develop full trees suited to evergreen privacy screening rather than focusing on height alone.

Saleable trees go directly to customers. Big Green Giants then handles delivery and can complete the professional installation as well.

The Big Green Giants growing operation is closely connected to what happens after each tree leaves Honey Brook.

Many of the trees will eventually be planted together in rows along property lines, behind backyards, beside roads, or around larger residential and commercial properties.

The company's involvement therefore begins well before the order is placed.

Big Green Giants raises its saleable Green Giants on the farm, manages their development, delivers them directly, and can remain involved through the final installation.

That connection between the growing operation and the finished privacy screen is a defining part of how Big Green Giants works.