Pinus cembra / Swiss Stone Pine

Planted in fall 2007.
Replaced in spring 2008.

It's an Ex-plant as of 2013, not because it failed, but because I finally decided it would become the wrong size and shape and took it out.

6/9/2010

I got a beautiful little specimen at Farmington Valley Nursery.  It’s at the back of the Meadow's Edge Garden.  It's probably too close to the river birch and maple in that garden, even though it stays narrow.  Pyramidal in youth, it gets gradually more rounded and open as it matures.  Slow growing.

Deer sheared off one side winter ‘08, and I replaced it, Spring ‘08.  Just a tiny thing, slow grower.

4/25/2012

9/26/12

Here's what a mature one looks like at Tower Hill:

It will be tall and narrow, but still a very large tree. In 2013 it was beginning to get a little height, shooting up straight and narrow. It was in full sun in winter and early spring, but by summer it was clear that this pine was in too much shade in Meadow's Edge, and also that it would quickly outgrow the small space at the back.

3/17/13

I took it out in fall 2013 and moved it to the back side of the Drive By Garden, but that just recreated the problem. Again, it would get too big and dense for the very back edge of a mixed border. It got a little more sun back there, but it just wasn't going to fit there over time.

10/1/13

I debated, and tried to think where else to put such a large mass of an evergreen. In the end I took it out. It was a nice conifer, and growing well, but I didn't have a good idea how to use it.


Propagation:
By seed.