Details of your Invoice# WB330502 (under Customer# CE192985):
Qty/Item#/Description/Unit Price:
3 FT526 Seedling Pinyon Pine 12-15" 3.99
Your total invoice totals $12.84, including tax and shipping. Backordered items show a quantity of 0. Items shipped from locations other than our warehouse will not appear in the above details.
Wow. I ordered three pinyon pine seedlings? Wow. One wasn't enough? I had to order three? I suppose some might say even one is too many for a 500 sq. ft. space in San Francisco. (But being a good San Franciscan, I don't hear negative voices so why bother.) At least I only paid $12.84. But perhaps this is evidence that I do have a plant problem.
I can't quite imagine what I'm going to do with three pinyon pines. I know I started out wanting some native conifer interest in my garden. I got hooked on having Pinus monophylla (Single leaf pinyon) after reading about it here. You can get P. monophylla seed here, but good luck finding a seedling. For reasons I don't recall, I decided I wanted a seedling, not a seed. And at some point I switched loyalties to Pinus edulis.
Sunset Western Garden (I'm in Zone 17):
Pinus edulis--Native to California's desert mountains; east to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; north to Wyoming. Zones 1-11, 14-21. Slow to 10-20 ft. tall, 8-16 ft. wide. Horizontally branching tree is bushy and symmetrical in youth; in age, a spreading tree with a rounded or flat crown. Beautiful densely foliaged small pine for container, rock garden. Lends look of age to new gardens.
Ahh! That's why I switched. It also makes edible seeds (edible by humans), but that will take many years. And I would want the birds to enjoy the seeds anyway.
Pinus monophylla--Southeastern California south to Baja, east to Utah, Arizona. Zones 2-12, 14-21. Very slow to 10-25 ft. tall, 10-15 ft. wide. In youth, slender, symmetrical narrow crowned. Small and round headed in maturity with a crooked trunk; open and broad topped in old age. Good bonsai or rock garden plant--or shrub of great character in dry, rocky places.
Well, that crooked trunk sounds nice, but I think the horizontally branching bushiness of the P. edulis will work better for me. At least for awhile. Assuming it grows at all in part-shade for half the year.
3 comments:
You'll find some way to fit those pinons into your 500 sq ft, ChuckB ... your previous post showed how ingenious you are at making everything work.
Yeah, you do have a plant problem, and maybe it's trouble for you but it's fun for us!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
One's going in the garden, one'll go on the roof in a pot, and I'm giving one to a friend.
And thanks for the positive feedback, Annie! (My b.f. would not be pleased--heh, heh.)
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