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Cheer Drops Arborvitae
Thuja occidentalis 'Smntdgt'
Also called thuja cheer drops
Cheer Drops Arborvitae is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Cheer Drops Arborvitae
Plant it in full sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 3–7. Expect it to reach about 14 ft tall and 9 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 12 years (a house reading).
Is Cheer Drops Arborvitae toxic to dogs or cats?
- Listed as toxic to dogs and cats by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
What was checked
Nine facts were checked against named botanical sources, each recorded beside the sources that carried it: mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, the trait tags, and years to mature size, which rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one and is marked so. Soil, diseases, pests, toxicity and the plant's own names have not yet been read for this plant, and its trait tags are the ones a feature uses rather than every word a page prints. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Cheer Drops Arborvitae
Plant Cheer Drops Arborvitae in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. In zone 5, the middle of its hardy zones 3 to 7, that is April to June, or August on the fall side.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 5, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 5 in April. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Cheer Drops Arborvitae get?
14 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult9 ftwideSee Cheer Drops Arborvitae in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Cheer Drops Arborvitae
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Give Cheer Drops Arborvitae about 9 ft of clear ground in every direction, measured from its center. It is one plant with room around it, not a row, and a raised bed is too small for it.
Add Cheer Drops Arborvitae to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Cheer Drops Arborvitae's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water and trait tags were checked against 9 published sources on October 16, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources. Bloom was checked as well: Cheer Drops Arborvitae bears no flowers, so there is no bloom window for a source to carry.
- Proven Winnersthe brand; Spring Meadow Nursery's ColorChoice lineheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water and trait tags
- pridescorner.comPrides Corner Farms (wholesale grower)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun and water
- Nature Hills Nurseryspread, sun, water and trait tags
- Plant Addictsthe queue's store pageheight, spread, hardiness zones and sun
- plants.mahoneysgarden.comNetPS Plant Finder (read at Mahoney's Garden Center's Plant Library)height, spread, hardiness zones and sun
- parkseed.comPark Seedheight, hardiness zones and water
- springmeadownursery.comSpring Meadow Nursery (the breeder and introducer, the patent's assign...height, spread and hardiness zones
- shop.arborday.orgArbor Day Foundation (Tree Nursery)hardiness zones
- US plant patent (Google Patents)Google Patents, USPP33286P2 (Thuja plant named 'SMNTDGT'; inventor Tim...water
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
Good to know about Cheer Drops Arborvitae
Curated from university extensions, botanic gardens and other primary sources, with the source named on every note.
Safety
Foliage and oil hold thujone, a convulsant neurotoxin. Small culinary or homeopathic amounts are safe, but concentrated oil or large ingestions can cause convulsions and liver and kidney toxicity. per Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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