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Other Names:  Grüne Kugel Umbrella Pine, Japanese Umbrella Pine

Brand:  Iseli Nursery

Description:

An outstanding selection featuring a compact, well branched habit and whorls of glossy, deep green needles year round; rounded when young, developing slowly into a small, conical shrub; a beautiful focal point in a garden with limited space

Ornamental Features

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine has attractive dark green evergreen foliage on a dwarf conifer with a pyramidal habit of growth. The glossy needles are highly ornamental and remain dark green throughout the winter. The brown fruits are held in cones in mid fall.

Landscape Attributes

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub. When pruning is necessary, it is recommended to only trim back the new growth of the current season, other than to remove any dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Green Bullet Umbrella Pine will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is particular about its soil conditions, with a strong preference for rich, acidic soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.