Arborvitae Hedge Calculator | Spacing & Planting Guide

Tell us what you're planting and how long the run is. You'll get your price — plants, installation, delivery to your zip and tax — in about thirty seconds.

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What delivery costs

Delivery is priced by zip code. Each band has an order minimum, and a spend above which we deliver free. Pickup at the nursery in Newton is always free.

Area Min. order Delivery Free over
Newton, Haverhill, Plaistow, Salem NH, Portsmouth, Newburyport $100 $50 $250
Boston, Metro West, Concord, Dover, southern coastal Maine $250 $100 $500
Worcester, South Shore, Lakes Region, Portland $500 $200 $750
Springfield, Cape Cod, White Mountains, mid-coast Maine $750 $250 $1,000
Installation, watering and tax

Installation — $30 per plant with a $300 minimum, covering the first 10 plants. We plant at proper spacing for a straight, evenly filled hedge.

Watering — that part is yours. We do not water plants in. Read our watering instructions and plan to water thoroughly through the first season.

Sales tax — New Hampshire has none. Massachusetts is 6.25% and Maine is 5.5%, charged on the plants only. Planting labour and delivery are not taxed.

Spacing and how we count plants

Everything here goes in at 3 feet on center, except Green Giant at 5 feet — it matures far wider and crowding it wastes plants.

The count is your run divided by the spacing, rounded up, plus one to close the end. A 50 foot hedge at 3 feet is 18 plants. A 90 foot run is 31.

Buying ten or more takes 5% off, twenty-five 7.5%, fifty 10%, a hundred 12.5%. It comes off automatically in the cart, and the count runs across your whole order of arborvitae, upright juniper and privet — so mixing varieties still counts. Anything already on the Fall Sale or Clearance is excluded.

Common questions

How far apart should arborvitae be planted?

Three feet on center for Emerald Green, American Pillar, North Pole, the upright junipers and privet. Green Giant is the exception at five feet.

Do I have to buy a pack?

No. Buy the exact number your run needs — if the calculator says 14, buy 14 and the 10-24 discount applies.

Do you deliver to me?

We deliver to just over a thousand zip codes across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. If your zip comes back outside the area, call us — we can sometimes make it work.

What if you don't have enough in stock?

Call us. We grow these, we hold more than the website shows at any moment, and we can often source more with a little notice.