This weeping white pine (Pinus Strobus 'Pendula') was installed to fill this otherwise very bare corner of a deck. We love this plant as each one has such an individual character.Plus they are very, very easy to grow in our area.
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Hi!
My name is Sandi Kaiser. My husband Kip and I recently moved to South Carolina from Michigan. We've both been in the landscaping/horticulture field for years and when we moved here, were a bit stumped as what we might do for a landscape,and where to find plant material we were used to, and what to mix with the clay to enrich the soil.(I miss my black composted soil)
I stumbled upon your website by chance and was so happy to find familiar conifers and beautiful japanese maples!!! Weeping White Pine, and the Weeping Blue Spruce have to be a couple of my all time favorites. how exciting! How much of a challenge has it been to try and acclimate some of them to our climate & soil change?
Glad you found us. In fact, you need to leave Michigan behind. So many people try to replicate what they used to do .... you have to learn to love clay. And we find that conifers do just fine in clay -- it is our summer heat and humidity that does them in. So, there are some that work here and some that don't. Firs and blue spruces (except Montgomery and a few other cultivars) are two to avoid generally speaking.
As far as amending the soil, we use a wonderful product called Mr. Natural. We'll see if we can find a source for it in SC.
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