Description

An outstanding selection featuring a compact, well branched habit and whorls of glossy, deep green needles year round; rounded when young, developing slowly into a small, conical shrub; a beautiful focal point in a garden with limited space

Landscape Attributes

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is particular about its soil conditions, with a strong preference for rich, acidic soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.