Evergreens Winter Burn

Cryptomeria japonica, or better known as Japanese Cedar, is probably only marginally hardy here.  It turns a drab color in winter like the native, unrelated Red Cedars.  This young tree looks burnt and I don’t know how this tree and the other couple I still have alive will turn out this Spring.

Japanese-Cedar

All my bamboo is turning tan.   This is usual every winter for me.  Most winters I will have complete topkill, but the past couple winters were unusually warm, so the culms still survived and leafed back out in Spring.

Phyllostachys-Nuda-Winter-Burn

A young Southwestern White Pine in my windbreak is burned pretty good, but should be fine come this spring.

Southwestern-White-Pine

I have a love/hate relationship with Pitlolly Pines.  They are the fastest growing pine I can grow, but a lot of the young ones die through the winter.  I guess this is a positive for weeding out the less cold hardy ones.   It is a cross between the Pitch Pine and Loblolly Pine.

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Winter burn is more common on the PitchxLoblolly Pines compared to other pines I am growing.

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