1. Good Together: Yellow Ribbon Arborvitae, Alaska Midnight Daylily, Gold-leaved Raspberry
(A Gardening Journal)

... Alaska Midnight. Its color scheme has a shimmering complexity that keeps at the table a "single topic" companion like the Yellow Ribbon arborvitae. You'll stick around, too.  ...

2. Today in the Garden of a Lifetime: Arborvitae Spirals in Training
(A Gardening Journal)

  Winter is for pruning. Thanks to the new (twelve-foot high!) orchard ladder, the three-ball topiary of hardy orange in the background received its top-to-bottom shaping back in December. ...

3. Today in the Garden of a Lifetime: Spirals of 'Yellow Ribbon' Arborvitae
(A Gardening Journal)

  The young spirals of 'Yellow Ribbon' arborvitae are thriving.  The  rigorous, even brutal, pruning they received in the Winter—which left them looking like plucked chickens twisted ...

4. Spirals of 'Yellow Ribbon' Arborvitae
(A Gardening Journal)

I'm growing a quartet of 'Yellow Ribbon' arborvitaes into spirals, where the trunk itself is a spiral, not just the foliage.  High time for another round of training on this youngster.