{"id":5090,"date":"2013-07-12T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2013-07-13T20:33:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T00:33:43","slug":"troubled-pines-and-some-good-ones-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/07\/12\/troubled-pines-and-some-good-ones-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled Pines&#8230; And Some Good Ones To Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5091\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pinus-sylvestis-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5091\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pinus-sylvestis-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pinus sylvestis (2)\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pinus-sylvestis-2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pinus-sylvestis-2-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scots Pine at Kingwood Center in Mansfield, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mugho, aka mugo pine (<em>Pinus mugo<\/em>), and Scots pine (<em>P. sylvestris<\/em>) are two troubled pines which gardeners in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA Hardiness zones 6 and 7) have shied away from planting. Both have become problem growers over the past quarter century. Scots pine suffers from several devastating foliar diseases. Once a popular Christmas tree, it is no longer grown. <\/p>\n<p>Mugo pines have problems with poor soil drainage, phytophthora root rot and Cylindrocladium root rot. Newly planted mugos generally live 3-5 years before they start to decline due to root weevils and other root-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclaneusma needle cast is the devastating disease of Scots pine in the mid-South region of the U.S. Diplodia tip blight has also been a problem. Often, latent infections of Diplodia don\u2019t show up for several years.  Scots pine is no longer grown as a Christmas tree; fraser fir (<em>Abies fraseri<\/em>) and white pine (<em>P. strobus<\/em>) have replaced Scots pine in the Christmas tree marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, many pines, including the ubiquitous white pine, perform well in the region. Some favorites in my east Tennessee garden (zone 6-b) include: lacebark pine (<em>P. bungeana<\/em>), several forms of Japanese red pine (<em>P. densiflora<\/em>), including cultivars \u2018Jane Kluis\u2019 and dragon-eye &#8216;Oculis Draconis&#8217;, Bergman Japanese white Pine (<em>P. parviflora<\/em> &#8216;Bergman&#8217;), and Vanderwolf Pyramid limber pine (<em>P. flexilis<\/em> \u2018Vanderwolf Pyramid\u2019).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Special thanks to Dr. Alan Windham, University of Tennessee Plant Pathologist, Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mugho, aka mugo pine (Pinus mugo), and Scots pine (P. sylvestris) are two troubled pines which gardeners in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA Hardiness zones 6 and 7) have shied away from planting. Both have become problem growers over the past quarter century. Scots pine suffers from several devastating foliar diseases. Once a popular Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[977,650,645,604,979,978,5,815,952,808,843,630,7,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}