Variety of European black pine Oregon Green is a beautiful representative of the family, which has a lush appearance, has a dense crown and is an attractive conifer for decorating the garden. For reasons of unpretentiousness and endurance in a gassed atmosphere, Oregon Green is used in urban-type landscaping - pine saturates the air with oxygen, makes it fresh. About what kind of care this grade needs, the article tells.

Description and specifications

Oregon Green has the distinctive characteristics that distinguish a variety and make it ideally suited for planting in an urban area, in areas exposed to sunlight, whose territory is quite spacious. The young growth of the variety looks especially beautiful - it has a pearl or silver shade, and in shape resembles wax candles.

The description of the variety is as follows:

1. Crown shape. Slightly asymmetric cone. Tree shoots stretch upward at a slight angle.
2. The size. It grows from 8 to 12-15 meters. The crown in diameter is 3–8 meters.
3. Needles. Thick, bright green or dark green depending on age. In a bunch of two needles.
4. Bumps. Oval brown color, in length from 3 to 8 cm, can be located one by one or in groups.
5. Growth rate - low.

The tree is attractive for its characteristics:

• grows both on fertile moist soil, and calcareous and saline - the variety is considered undemanding to the quality of the soil;
• not only an adult pine is very resistant to frost, but a young one does not require shelter for the winter;
• Oregon Green is photophilous, but tolerates a slight shadow.

Did you know? The longest needles among conifers in the marsh pine. They reach a length of 40–45 cm.

As can be seen from the description, the variety is unpretentious and has noticeable positive characteristics. The American origin (Oregon) can also tell some details about the tree: after all, the area of ​​origin of this representative of black pine is the north-western coast of the Pacific Ocean, where there are many lakes, the climate is mild, the average temperature is quite low, and the mountain landscapes are open to light and wind.

In landscape design

Variety Oregon Green is suitable for a small garden as the main planting, around which the site design should be further considered. Pine takes up a lot of space, so in a small area is not so popular. But in a spacious open area, the tree can be combined with other plantings.

In parks with spacious meadows, Pinus nigra Oregon Green looks great in large group plantings and compositions. In a Japanese garden, a young tree looks good, but it is worth considering that over time it will be necessary to change the style of the territory. If you follow the abundance of crown varieties, do decorative pruning, then you can grow a tree on an alpine hill.

Important! Cropping by pruning is good for pine as a rejuvenation.

Landing and further care

As soon as the frost stops, in the early spring, it is the right time to land Oregon Green. You should choose a place open to sunlight, the soil will suit both fertile and clay, the main thing when planting is to provide drainage. After planting a seedling, the earth around it needs to be mulched.

No special care is required; in dry times you can water a young tree. You can feed with mineral fertilizers: either during landing, or in the near future once. Pine is so unpretentious for top dressing because it has a developed and strong root system. In winter, at a time of heavy snowfall, branches can break, causing the cone shape to break. Therefore, it is useful to prepare in the fall - to tie the crown in a circle, pressing it to the trunk, thereby protecting the integrity of the tree.

Disease and Pest Prevention

Pines have their own pests.

They may appear completely unexpectedly, so it is important to know the representatives:

• coniferous silkworm (may not damage this variety);
• sawflies (they eat needles, they fight with pyrethroid and viral preparations, but larvae are collected by hand from a young tree);
• scoop (damages the needles, help from the butterfly - “Decis”, “Karate”, “Aktara”, “Enzhio”, for use, you need to look at the instructions of the preparations);
• shields (feed on the needles that die off due to them, use Calypso or Confidor Maxi against these pests);
• bark beetles (noticed holes - it means the tree is affected, preventive treatment is used in early spring with compounds based on Bifentrin);
• ticks (they use acaricides - drugs that process the tree 2-3 times a week later);
• pine hermes (a noticeable white coating on the branches - the presence of hermes is guaranteed, insecticides are used against it in three stages in April, May and June at intervals of less than a month).

Planting Oregon Green separately from other conifers and forests ensures protection against popular pests.

Did you know? AT Pines grow wild only in the northern hemisphere of the Earth.

A tree can be damaged by such diseases against which fungicides are used:

• curvature of shoots;
• death of the bark from fungi;
• pine cancer (against which the site of the lesion should be cleaned, branches removed and destroyed, and not affected parts treated with 1% solution of copper sulfate);
• rot (helps to simply dry the soil around the pine);
• rust (used for the treatment of Kuproksat, Champion and other preparations against mushrooms; it is important to always read the instructions for each);
• shyutte (also a fungal disease that may not affect a young seedling, as it most often affects adult trees with its spores).

Pine need to be treated once a season with drugs with a narrow spectrum of action. For example, “Kartotsid”, they are used more often, 3 times a season, it gives a good result, fights many diseases. And in order to avoid some of them, you just need to adhere to the Oregon Green growing technology and remember where it comes from. Of course, you cannot protect the tree from showers and dampness, but you can plant it correctly from the very beginning.

Important! The fungicidal agent “Kartotsid” can be used in mixtures: in combination with the “Golden Spark”, the preparation gives amazing successes when applied three times.

Oregon Green is a beautiful, stylish cone-shaped variety that will grow slowly and delight the gardener with its thick crown for years. Owners of large areas can use black pine as an ideal part of landscape design, in which you can beat lush wide trees in combination with flower beds or other low representatives of conifers, for example, juniper. In a high open area, the tree plays the role of the main element.