Scotch Pine is a fast-growing conifer tree with an irregular pyramidal habit that opens and losses its lower branches as it ages. The bundles of stiff, twisted blue-green needles spiral around the branches. Grows best in full sun with and moist, well-drained acidic soils. Though known for its straight trunk, when grown in North America this feature is rare.
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Type:
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Tree, Conifer
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Origins:
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Northern Europe and Northern Asia
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Height:
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30' - 60'
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Spread:
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30' - 40'
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Spacing:
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12’
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USDA Hardiness Zone:
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2 - 7
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Culture:
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Full Sun
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Bloom Color:
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N/A
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Season of Interest:
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Year-Round
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance plant. No serious pests or diseases. Watch for blights, rots, canker, and rusts. Potential pests include caterpillars, borers, bark beetles, miners, scale, mealybugs, and sawfly.
LANDSCAPE USES: Specimen or mass plantings, Ponds and streams, and shade trees.
COMPANION PLANTS: Aster, Cypress, Feather Grass
IMAGES: Hugo.arg at the Lithuanian language Wikipedia, Pinus sylvestris Paprastoji pušis, CC BY-SA 3.0, (2) Sheila Sund from Salem, United States, A rainy day (30603975495), CC BY 2.0, (3) Dezidor, Borovice u Salaspilsu, CC BY 3.0, (4) Walter J. Pilsak, Kiefer-1, CC BY-SA 3.0, (5) Steinsplitter, Kiefer - Pinus 2, CC BY-SA 3.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
