Update on Pinus Parviflora 'Glauca Nana' - Japanese White Pine - Zone 5 - June 2022
Earlier this Spring, I received a few comments on a post from last year where I talked about after some hemming-and-hawing, I brought home and planted a special tree: a Japanese White Pine - Pinus Parviflora 'Glauca Nana' . Below are a couple of them - that are similar: "I saw this tree and I'm intrigued. How is your's doing?" I replied back in the comments with my thoughts (more on that below), but I thought this might deserve a full post. First....about the tree. It has a siren call. You can't NOT notice it amongst the pallets upon pallets of Arborvitae and Boxwoods. And, I have to admit...I saw the exact same thing that the two commentors had - at the Big Box Orange nursery this Spring. Here's the beauty that was calling me to bring it home from back in May: So, I won't waste time. My tree didn't make it. My Japanese White Pine - Glauca Nana - went brown in Winter and got worse as time went on. When Spring came, ...