Cultivars
There are many cultivars of this plant, please contact your local nursery for available varieties.

'Alba'  Queen Victoria Arbor-vitae
This erect conifer forms a pyramidal habit with growing tips that are greenish-white. It grows to 3m (10ft) in 10 years and maintains its colour throughout the year.

'Aurea Nana'
This slow growing plant has a compact rounded habit with yellowish-green foliage and is suitable for small gardens or rockeries, preferring a cool climate.

'Caespitosa' 
This compact shrub grows to 50cm (20in) wide in ten years with dense flattened adult foliage. It is suitable for rockeries and small gardens.

'Columbia'  Silvertip Arbor-vitae
This conifer forms a broad pyramidal habit with green adult foliage that is tipped with creamy-white new growth. It grows to 3m (10ft) over a 10-year period.

'Ellwangeriana Aurea'
This conifer matures to a pyramidal bush that is 3 to 4 metres high with foliage that is green-bronze turning bronze during winter.

'Ericoides'  Heath Arbor-vitae
This low growing conifer forms a bun habit with soft bronze-green juvenile foliage. It spreads to 1 metre in 5 years and the foliage becomes darker bronze during winter.

'Little Gem'
This dwarf shrub is slow growing forming a rounded habit up to 40cm (15in) tall in ten years. The flattened foliage is dark green and arranged in a twisted pattern. It is used in small pebble gardens or rockeries as a specimen.

'Lutea'  George Peabody Arbor-vitae
This hardy conifer forms a broad pyramidal habit with bright creamy yellow foliage that matures to golden bronze. It will reach 3m (10ft) in 10 to 12 years.

'Ohlendorfii' 
This upright shrub forms an oblong rounded habit with cord-like juvenile foliage at the base and adult leaves in the crown. It is slow growing attaining a hight of 1m (3ft) in ten years and is suitable for border planting.

'Pyramidalis'
This conifer forms an upright pyramidal habit with rich green adult foliage that is arranged in fan shaped branches. It grows to 3m (10ft) in 10 to 12 years and matures at 10m (30ft). 

'Rheingold'  Rheingold Arbor-vitae
This low growing conifer forms a bun habit with pinkish sprays of juvenile and adult foliage that turns golden-bronze during winter. It grows 0.7 x 1.3 metres wide over a 10 to 12 year period. This plant could reach 2 metres. This plant may be pruned to maintain juvenile foliage only but if grown naturally it will form a conical habit.

'Spiralis'
This conifer forms a narrow-pyramidal habit with spirally arranged branches covered in sprays of dark green foliage (fernlike). It grows to 3m (10ft) over a 10 to 12 year period if planted in an open position.

'Wareana Lutescens' syn. 'Lutescens'
This shrub forms a broad pyramidal habit up to 2.5m (8ft) in ten years. It has yellow-green foliage that turns bronzy colour in winter.