Swiss Stone Pine is a slow-growing conifer with a dense upright pyramidal habit that opens as it matures, and soft but stiff bundles of blue-green needles. The cone clusters never fully open. Grows best in full sun with and well-drained soils.
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Type:
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Tree, Conifer
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Origins:
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Central Europe
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Height:
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30' - 40'
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Spread:
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15' - 25'
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Spacing:
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20’
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USDA Hardiness Zone:
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4 - 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: Rhododendron, Pieris, Winter Daphne
IMAGES: NasserHalaweh, Pinaceae Pinus cembra 2, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Joanna Boisse, Atlas roslin pl Sosna limba 5356 7594, CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Joanna Boisse, Atlas roslin pl Sosna limba 5362 7594, CC BY-SA 4.0, (4) Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, Pinus cembra kz02, CC BY-SA 4.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
