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Arborvitae - Nigra
Females bear small cones with a small terminal hook on each scale. Unlike some evergreens, 'Nigra' will keep its dark green color all winter long. The Nigra Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra', is one of the busy varieties for cold climates. This low maintenance arborvitae needs full sun to partial shade and prefers sandy loam to clay loam. Useful as a specimen, accent, windscreen, or commonly used in foundation plantings. Scale-like leaves are ovate, mid to dark-green on top, lighter beneath. Makes one of the finest year-round hedges that forms a natural fence around your home. ... get more information
Bristlecone Pine The cones which occasion its names are indeed tipped by slender spines or bristles. In cultivation it proves slow, bushy, dark and enduring of difficult sites. It is dense in growth, the shoots set with dark, short needles, five per bundle. Looks aside, bristlecone pine is famous because in its arid mountain home of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, it can live for thousands of years. The Bristlecone Pine, 'Pinus aristata', is a type of pine tree that can reach an age far greater than that of any other living thing known - up to 5,000 years. |
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