Description
Properties of Scots Pine Plants
- Scots Pine Plants are an evergreen conifer often found in forests and woodlands.
- They differs from other trees such Green Beech Trees or Oak trees in that they will hold their colour and foilage all year round. They are native to Ireland.
- They are a medium to tall growing tree that can reach up to 35 metres and can be up to 700 years old.
- The bark of is scaly orange brown with blue green needles (leaves).
- The bark develops fissures and roughness with age.
- These trees are brilliant specimens for biodiversity and provide homes and food sources to many different mammals and birds.
- The flowers develop into cones, a stable food source for squirrels and pine martens.
- They are drought and frost tolerant and will grow well in dry soils.
Characteristics of Scots Pine Trees.
Type: Evergreen
Status: Hardy in cold weather, does well in drought
Position: Sun or light shade
Flowering: Flowers develop into Cones
How and When to plant Scots Pine Trees.
- Plants are available bare root or root balled during the bare root season, November to March or potted all year round.
- Root balling the plant ensure the plant is delivered with the whole root system intact ready for planting into the ground.
- The root balled plant is placed in a biodegradable hessian net and tied up.
- The plant is then transported to the end user and customer.
- Our Root-balled Scot Pine trees are approximately 80 to 90cms in width and approximately 4ft tall.
- We recommend planting the large Root Balled trees into a trench and backfilling with the soil. The trench will need to be about 12/18 inches deep to accommodate the root ball.
You can view our Scots Pine trees grown on our land from our Carlow LEO Case Study Video.
