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Loblolly Pine
It is particularly prized for its straight trunk, which contains no knots for up to 30 feet. It thrives in a variety of soils, including well-drained upland areas with poor nutrient concentrations to poorly drained lowland areas and abandoned fields. The Loblolly Pine tree, Pinus taeda, is a fast-growing member of the yellow pine group. This evergreen conifer has pine needles that are 6 to 9 inches long. In urban areas, stands of loblolly pines are used as wind and noise barriers. The Loblolly Pine is a stately tree and is often chosen to use for convenient landscape screening. Loblolly Pine trees can grow up to 100 feet tall and up to three feet in diameter; however, along the coast they seldom rise more than 50 feet. It is also called yellow pine, North Carolina pine, and oldfield pine and is the most commercially important forest species in the southern United States. ... more
Washington Hawthorne It has low water requirements and shows a high tolerance to salt and alkali soils. Washington Hawthorne trees holds its fruit on the tree and it is an excellent wildlife species and can be used as a specimen, hedge or screen. Fruit is a bright glossy red. The foliage is a reddish purple when unfolding and gradually changing to lustrous dark green at maturity. After frost, the leaves turn a beautiful scarlet color. The tree flowers in early spring with a profusion of white blossoms. Flowers are white and ½” diameter. The Washington Hawthorne tree, Crataegus Phaenopyrum, is a broadly oval to rounded, dense, thorny tree. Fall color varies from orange to scarlet to purplish. Plant 4-6’ apart in the row for a hedge. |
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