Evergreen conifer with flattened needles with silvery white bands beneath and pendent leading shoots. Produces small ovoid female cones that are pendent. Height to 80 feet.
Curious, cone-shaped "knees" grow above the soil in particularly wet sites. These knees help stabilizes the tree. Bright green, two-ranked leaves turn rust colour in the autumn before falling. This columnar deciduous conifer eventually reaches a height of 39 meters (130 feet).
This conical conifer has downcurved branches, fissured, red-brown bark and gray-green leaves. Height is 80-260 feet. Excellent (though ultimately very large) specimen tree.
One of the most elegant specimen pine trees you are likely to see in temperate gardens. The long drooping needles seem to shimmer in the slightest breeze while the colour seems to change from green to blue to silver and back to green again. The ellipsoid female cones can reach 12 inches long....
A pine of distinction, the Ponderosa pine, or Western Yellow Pine, grows to 50m ( 164ft ) but will remain somewhat smaller in most gardens. Long needles and an open branch structure make for an elegant silhouette.
This is the tree that produces those wonderful pine nuts that help make pesto complete. In time these trees grow to have a broad flat crown, earning them the common name Umbrella Pine. The shelled kernels are the part eaten, but the whole seed must be intact for it to remain viable - Do not shell...
This conical to columnar pine has blue-green needles and scaly purplish-brown bark. The red-brown female cones are oblong and about 3 inches long. Height 30 feet; spread 20 feet.
A narrow conical tree with scaly ash-gray bark and dark green leaves borne in pairs. An elegant conifer in the garden. The long conical female cones are cobalt-blue in early summer, ripening to brown. Height 50 feet; spread 15 feet.
This slow-growing conical pine becomes flat-topped with age. It features reddish-brown bark and each slender green leaf has two distinctive yellow bands. Bears blue-green female cones. Height 20-40 feet; spread 15-20 feet.
