Congrats on the new camera! Been a long time coming =)

Yard is looking REAL nice. I like your variety of of trees, especially your pines

Beng I always thought Longleaf Pine was zone 8, zone 7 being pushing it. Is zone 6 what you had last winter? And this Longleaf pine survived a REAL zone 6 winter? Just wondering.

poaky, that's a so-called 'montane' longleaf from the mountains of NE Alabama & NW Georgia. Hardier than the usual coastal plain type. Cold doesn't seem to bother it much, but snow/ice does. There's another, slightly smaller one out of the pic too.

Last winter was zone 5ish -- no issues except alittle needle-burn & one small, broken branch you can see.

Some more conifer eye-candy. Pondcypress with shellbark hickory at left foreground & dawn redwood at right:

Southwestern white pine. Bad girdling pot-bound roots required surgery but has recovered. Springy limbs shed/withstand snow/ice quite well:

Closeup of Table Mnt pine. Prickly needles to ward off browsers:

Himalayan white pine. Recovering from a difficult transplant & still requires support. Alittle sun-scalding on trunk from last winter.

The needles are even softer & more delicate than they look:

Wates Golden VA pine on Scots pine rootstock -- about 20 ft. Much more decorative in mid-winter. Black cherry behind:

I have conifers, nothing fancy like Dax has, and others on here, but the Longleaf pine was a point of interest, being a southern pine. I wish I had room for one like yours. I have lots of moister soil downslope. Do they usually get wide when old? Do they NEED well drained soil, yeah, I know they are PINES for goodness sake. Where did you find yours just for the heck of it. I'm just toying around with the idea. It would likely be shaded a bit, unless I plant it somewhere other than my front yard, by my P. Strobus and N. spruces. Damn tree addiction...

Poaky, I searched the internet for some time for montane longleaf pine & eventually came up w/a wholesale private forestry service in NW Georgia somewhere that sold them. Called them up & got IIRC 8 seedlings -- gave/traded most away except 3. One got deer-chewed, but 2 are healthy.

Sorry, but I can't find the phone#/address any more -- that was 9 yrs ago. If you search enough you can prb'ly find it the same way I did.

Add a couple more. Dawn redwood near 30' w/shellbark hickory transplant in front:

Dawn redwood trunk -- about a foot diameter at the ground:

Thanks Beng, I just got the reply now from Oct 6. I will just try a websearch, that is likely what you mean by how you found it.