Pinus patula Very Rare What sets this plant apart

What sets this plant apart is not a registration certificate but a story: the stock came originally from the Norfolk

and give room for a vigorous

but the wait is widely reckoned worthwhile: a mature specimen in full flower

catching low winter light until the whole canopy seems lit from within

and the broad buckler fern

Pinus patula Very Rare What sets this plant apartPinus patula is the weeping pine, and few conifers wear their needles so gracefully. Long, slender, and soft, the bright grass green needles hang straight down from the branches in feathery curtains, so that the whole tree seems to pour toward the ground, especially in a light breeze. Fast growing and open crowned, this is a Mexican pine grown above all for that pendent, shimmering foliage. Native to the cool mountain escarpments of eastern Mexico,