Mugo Pine - Planted and Forgotten - January 2022
During the past week or so, I've been poking around doing research into evergreens for this year and think about shrubs and trees that might work in certain spots of our garden. While I was doing that, I thought that I should do some level of an informal audit on what is in place. Of course, there are the Hicks yews (in multiple places), but also a couple of Junipers and just last year, I added a Bird's Nest Spruce that I left in the nursery container . But, when I went out in the yard to have a look at what else there was, I realized that I planted another conifer that I failed to document in the [ garden diary ] this past fall: a Mugo Pine. When I was planting some of those tiny Boxwoods , I also dug in a very small Mugo Pine. While I failed to post about the small Pine going in, I *did* mention it during my 2021 scorecard post . While that's just fine, I do think this small conifer shrub deserves a post of its own. What is a Mugo Pine? From Monrovia : A popula