Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus) - 3 Gallon Pot
$55.98
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Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus) - 3 Gallon Pot
$55.98
Sale price
$55.98
Regular price
$63.00
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Description
Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Coniferous Evergreen Tree
Height at Maturity: 50-80'
Width at Maturity: 20-40'
Spacing: 15-20' apart for privacy screens; 45'+ for space between trees
Growth Habit / Form: Upright Pyramid
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: -
Flower Size: -
Flowering Period: -
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Fragrant Flowers: -
Foliage Color: Blue Green
Fragrant Foliage: Yes
Berries: No
Berry Color: -
Cones: Yes, copper brown cylindrical pine cones
Sun Needs: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained
Soil pH: 4.5 - 6.5 (Acid)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts: Birds, Imperial Moths, Mammals, Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought (moderate when established), Insect, Rabbit
Description
A beautiful North American native, the Eastern White Pine is a rapid growing, long-lived coniferous evergreen tree adding 2 feet or more in height per year reaching 50 to 80 feet tall when all grown up. It has an upright pyramidal form that eventually becomes more of a rounded pyramid with age. It is clothed in attractive and soft-to-the-touch bluish green needles to 5 inches long in bundles that provide a soft texture and cool color that draws the eye. When trees reach around 5 years of age they begin to produce very attractive cylindrical, copper-brown cones up to 8 inches long that hang downward from the stems. Eastern White Pine is an excellent specimen tree or addition to privacy screen plantings and responds well to pruning for use as an outdoor Christmas tree.
Note: In USDA Zone 8 of the South the Eastern White Pine will appreciate some filtered sun or shade during the afternoon hours. In Zones 3-7 it will handle full sun.
Wildlife Benefits
The Eastern White Pine supports the Imperial Moth and its seeds are a favorite of black bears, rabbits, red squirrels, and many bird species. The canopy serves as a shelter for many birds and small mammals.
Landscape & Garden Uses
A fast grower reaching 50 to 80 feet tall and 20 to 40 feet wide at maturity, the Eastern White Pine is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, in privacy screen plantings or along sunny to partially shaded woodland borders. Also responds well to pruning as an outdoor Christmas tree. A fine addition to native plant gardens, conifer gardens and wildlife gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 15 to 20 feet apart for privacy screen; 45 feet apart for space between trees
Growing Preferences
The Eastern White Pine is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained acidic soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. We suggest at least 4 hours of direct sunlight per day. It prefers an acid soil ranging from 4.5 to 6.0 on the pH scale. Alkaline soils above 7.0 pH will result in yellowing foliage and poor health. As with so many other ornamental trees, a constantly soggy soil or wet can cause problems with the roots. responds well to pruning to control size or for shaping purposes such as for an outdoor Christmas tree.
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