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Scotch Pine
Pinus sylvestris
Photo courtesy of North Dakota State University - Agriculture and University Extension
The The Scotch Pine is a lovely pine widely used throughout North America as a landscape pine and as a commercially grown Christmas tree. It is notable for its beautiful bluish-green or yellowish-green foliage. It can be successfully grown in even poor soils.
Planting Requirements - Scotch Pine does best in well-drained soils of acidic pH, but is known for its tolerance of poor soils that may be sandy, rocky, or of heavy clay, and of acidic, neutral, or alkaline pH. It thrives on neglect in full sun, and tolerates prolonged drought. It grows in zones 3 to 7.
Leaf Identification Features - The relatively short needles of Scotch Pine range from bluish-green to medium green to yellow-green, and occur in bundles of two (left). The most distinguishing trait of these needles is their twisted shape and bluish color (right), although the twin greenish needles of Virginia Pine have a similar appearance. Needles generally remain on the twigs from two to four years.
Other Identification Features - The pollen-bearing staminate (male) yellow flowers of Scotch Pine emerge with the new shoots (candles) in mid-spring, and fertilize the nearby immature pink-red pistillate (female) flowers (upper left). This makes Scotch Pine a monoecious species, like all Pines and most evergreens. The small cones that mature in their second year (upper right) do not have prickles on the backside of their scales, as many pine cones do.
The orange, flaky bark of the upper trunk and large branches of Scotch Pine (lower left) is its most recognizable feature from a distance, on mature trees. However, the lower trunk has bark that is strikingly different, composed of gray or reddish-brown fissures and plates (lower right).
Scotch Pine Trees... The trees are between 12" and 24" tall when shipped... And shipped Bare Root...
Shipping and planting times are winter and spring months. Please choose from following months: November thru April. But we will make exceptions with limited warranties due to heat during shipping.
And, any tree shipped during normal green and growth months ...which is May through October is going to arrive with brown, burned leaves. They will recover and go green again, but they are going to look dead on arrival.
PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
2 Scotch Pine Trees = $12.95 plus $9.50 s/h.
10 Scotch Pine Trees = $33.95 plus $12.50 s/h.
25 Scotch Pine Trees = $49.95 plus $20.00 s/h.
50 Scotch Pine Trees = $89.95 plus $25.00 s/h.
100 Scotch Pine Trees = $178.00 plus $32.50 s/h.
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