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Eastern White Pine
apart for screening purposes. Also widely used for Christmas trees and timber. The White Pine takes six to eight years to produce a six-foot tree on good sites. It is easily controlled, and is good for small properties as well as field plantings. It grows rapidly for a pine tree and is pyramidal shaped when young, becoming umbrella-shaped with age. The Eastern White Pine, Pinus Strobus, is a beautiful landscape pine widely used throughout much of North America. Space 6 ft. Eastern White Pine trees are widely used as a screen or windbreak. This evergreen conifer tree is a truly magnificent tree attaining a height of 80 feet at maturity with a diameter of two to three feet. It can tolerate wet, swampy areas. It carries long, soft bluish green needles with large brown cones. It grows best in full sun or partial shade and in ordinary soil. The White Pine tree is long-lived and vigorous. ... more
Bristlecone Pine It is dense in growth, the shoots set with dark, short needles, five per bundle. In cultivation it proves slow, bushy, dark and enduring of difficult sites. Looks aside, bristlecone pine is famous because in its arid mountain home of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, it can live for thousands of years. The cones which occasion its names are indeed tipped by slender spines or bristles. The Bristlecone Pine, 'Pinus aristata', is a type of pine tree that can reach an age far greater than that of any other living thing known - up to 5,000 years. Gardening News and Articles |
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