| Glauca
Pencil Pines are popular for creating naturally narrow screens in
confined areas |
When Chris was seven he collected
cactus and succulents. His mum let me plant them all along a dry
garden bed under the eves on the northern side of their
 weatherboard
cottage. Chris took a lot of pride in his little garden and
collected pebbles, sands and scoria to decorate amongst his
succulents and cactus. One day Chris’ mum said she had to plant a
Pencil Pine in the middle of his garden. Chris was disappointed at
the interruption to his design but he had no choice, and his mum
planted the pencil pine - Sempervirens stricta and it took off and
grew like a rocket. Within 18 months it was three meters tall and it
started to get covered in awful clusters of cones, the branches
collapsed under the weight and hung out from the tree destroying the
pencil shape. It was the ugliest thing Chris had ever seen and he
uprooted his succulent collection and planted it elsewhere.
From that time until the last few years Chris disliked Pencil Pines
with a passion. He believed that they would not perform in the
garden as they were supposed to. In recent years Chris noticed when
he travelled to California that a new type of pencil pine was
becoming increasingly popular for creating naturally narrow screens
in confined areas. It’s called the Glauca Pencil Pine. This tree is
a little slower growing, has darker green denser foliage with a
slight hint of blue and grows tall and narrow maintaining its tall
slender shape into maturity with very few un slightly nuts. |
|
Glauca pencil pines
are very narrow, tolerant of a wide range of soil types,
exposed sites and are very drought hardy |
Glauca pencil pines grow at the rate
of 1 meter per year and love to be trimmed once they achieve their
desired size.
They are very narrow, tolerant of a wide range of soil types,
exposed sites and are
 very
drought hardy. They can be planted close together say 1 per meter
centre to centre and used as a hedge. Create a line or avenue of
columns through the landscape by planting them 4-7 meters apart. If
it is a fairly short line plant an odd number say 3,5 or7.
Where you have a two storey house with a very small front yard and
no where to plant a large tree, they are excellent to frame the
house. When Chris is completing a garden design he will use them to
highlight water features and garden ornaments.
The reason there are so many poor forms of Pencil Pines around is
that traditionally Pencil Pines were grown from seed but these days
all of our Glauca Pencil Pines are cutting grown . They can be
purchased from Chris & Marie’s as 2ft tall specimens in 7” pots for
just $9.90. You will find them a hardy attractive and reliable
landscaping plant. |
|
2ft tallGlauca
pencil pines in 7” pots for just $9.90 |
|
Home | Specials
| Products |
Contact us | Services
|
Jobs
|
Gift Voucher |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Garden ‘Slip
Slops’
This funky plastic slip on is an
attractive, easy to wear, durable and long lasting footwear. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BoxOz® Lonicera
SPECIAL OFFER
Grow 4 metres of BoxOz®
Lonicera hedge or border for $39.90.
Box of 20×3"pots of BoxOz® Lonicera $39.90.
3"pots $2.50 each or 5 for $11.50
BoxOz®
Lonicera fast hedge and topiary |
|
|
|
|
|
|
