Great foliage, Y-Dog. It's either an arbor vitae-Thuja species -of some kind, or a Chamaecyparis of some other kind.

+oM

My first guess was a hinoki cypress of some kind.

Thuja occidentalis !,cultivar ?
Clement

Thuja plicata 'Grune Kugel'

-Brent

If Grune Kugel gets that big I'm in trouble...literature has it 12-24" in 10 years....that plant in the photo looks bigger! Mine are also wider than they are tall. But it does look like a Thuja...

The one in the photo is about 3 feet high and there are three others that are even bigger. One has to be 5 or 6 feet tall. I have no idea how long they've been like that, though, or if they'll get bigger because I've only lived here for a little while. They may get 20 feet for all I know!!

Looks like Thuja occidentalis rather than Thuja plicata to me--probably a dwarf cultivar.
Edwin might know the cultivar.. :0)

-Sam

in the original post in the shrub forum.. wherein i referred them to you gurus .. i said:

it reminds me more of an arb.. that i have as Thuja occidentalis 'Golden Globe' aka 'Globosa Aurea'

and one 'tell'.. is whether yours was ever sheared.. or if it is natural shape ... the one above.. grows in this shape.. all by its lonesome ... and you should be able to tell by sticking your head in it.. lol ...

coloration varies thru the year ... so i dont know if yours is the yellow version ... but you might want to change the search at the link to ... Thuja occidentalis 'Globosa'

good luck

ken

Thuja occidentalis Globosa Aurea .. natural shape.. never been sheared in my garden .. june 3rd 2011 coloration .. 3 to 4 feet .. get this.. lowes.. 2002 ... go figure.. lol .. one of the VERY FEW i bought at bigboxstore ... which means the name is probably wrong.. lol ..

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The one I have is more upright, though. It's definitely not round like that. It's more column shaped.

I think I'm going to go with a dwarf hinoki cypress in my front yard bed now. In researching what the one in the photo is I found that I really like that nana gracilis. Thanks everybody for your help.

This one appears to be growing in shade. Are they all in shade? My first suspicion would be Thuja occidentalis 'Woodwardi' because it has been fairly commonly grown for a number of years. 'Woodwardi' would tend to be a little more compact than what I'm seeing here, but that could be a result of the amount of shade they are growing in. Someone with more Thuja cultivar experience will recognize it I'm sure.

They are all in shade for the most part. There is some sun during the day but they are on the side of the house where there is a stone path that is surrounded by a lot of different evergreen trees, and it has more shade then sun for sure.

probably just Thuja occidentalis 'Globosa'

Here is a link that might be useful: photos

You likely have at least two different Thuja occidentalis cultivars. One a globosa type and we'd need to see a pic of the others to see what they might be.

tj

I found several discriptions that this plant could be a Thuja occidentalis 'Thujopsoides'.
Unfortunately there are no pics availlable for comparison...