Japanese White Pine
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: 25-30'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Japanese White Pine is like a life-sized bonsai tree for your garden. With its picturesque outline, showy pinecones, and soft-to-the-touch sprays of blue-green needles, this uncommon evergreen conifer will be a piece of living art in your landscape. Essential in any Asian-inspired garden, Japanese White Pine’s craggy habit also looks particularly handsome complementing the clean and simple lines of a ranch house or a contemporary-style home. Give this slow-growing specimen room to grow, but be patient. Just as a masterful bonsai takes years to create, this full-size version needs time to mature as well.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: 25-30'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
Pines have always been revered in Japanese culture as symbols of long life and endurance. The Japanese White Pine is especially honored, and in Japanese gardens this tree is often painstakingly pruned to appear windswept and old, with certain needles removed one-by-one to give the effect. John Gould Veitch was the first to introduce this tree to the Western world, in 1861. He was a fourth-generation nurseryman, and he and his family introduced hundreds of plants to the U.K. Tuberculosis struck him down, though, at the tender age of 31.
The Details
True Blue…I saw you there all alone…you should be in my yard…where I can take care of you…whoa, whoa, whoooaa! Okay, so it may not be "true blue" but the blue-green needles of this specimen evergreen are tantalizing enough to create visual interest in your garden. Once the Japanese White Pine is mature enough to produce cones - look out! You will have non-stop cone production and always in various stages of cone maturity (baby cones, teenage cones, adult cones, senior citizen cones...). Best suited as a specimen or accent plant and can be planted in small spaces.
How to Grow
Japanese White Pine is a tree of the mountains, so not surprisingly it likes full sun, excellent drainage, and a cool-summer climate. It will put up with less than perfect conditions, though, and can even tolerate salt, which our own Eastern White Pine cannot abide. Being a mountain tree, it’s a natural among stonework, so if you have a stone path, patio, or retaining wall, consider finding this tree a place of prominence in your landscape, and the features of “hardscape” and “softscape” will play off of each other beautifully.
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Size Guide
Scale
Size B
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Size B Trees:
4-5' tall. Grown in our #10 evergreen tree container in this size. Open grower, striking blue needles and unique growth. Pine cones develop all year long.
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