Scotch Pine

Pinus sylvestris

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.

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.