A delightful, dense, dwarf selection from the research of Dr. Sid Waxman at the University of Connecticut, ‘Soft Touch’ is a Cary Award recipient for good reason. Its growth habit and slow growth speed make it perfect for small space use while its short, thin, wavy needles, tightly packed on close-knit branches make you want to reach out and touch them. You’ll love this plant’s soft feel and great landscape look and the fact that it is so easy to grow, prospering nicely in any sunny location with moist, well-drained soil

Famous for his groundbreaking work with dwarf White Pines from witch’s brooms, the late Sid Waxman from the University of Connecticut introduced this low, irregular, half-upright spreader with long needled, unruly branches in 1993. This new favorite breaks the mold of many of his dense, tight, inpenetrable selections to give us a more open, highly textured plant that is more relaxed, free-form and airy. This sweet textured beauty is perfect for a large location where it can look its ‘Shaggy Dog’ best, anchoring any sunny, well drained location by growing into a spectacularly different, year round beautiful specimen.

A unique mutation of Pinus strobus ‘Pendula’ with brighter and longer bluish-green needles. Its cascading, spreading growth habit makes it ideal as a ground cover for rock gardens or as a specimen plant.

The Weeping Eastern White Pine is a plant that will take on an individual personality depending on the kind of landscape situation in which it is placed. If you are looking for a wide, flowing specimen, this is the plant for you as it only attains the height that you train it to reach. The rest of the branches flow and cascade like a branching waterfall of curving, pendulous branches covered with soft textured, long green needles. It makes an incredible landscape focal point in a place where you can provide it room to move and shine. Weeping White Pine loves full sun and well-drained, moist soils and requires only a little staking artistry on your part to provide years of ooohs and aaahs!

Dense and compact, this bun shaped plant has soft, thin light green needles that beg to be touched. Great texture and size make it perfect for use in many landscape situations. Deer resistant and easy to grow. Dense tight form works well along foundations, in dwarf plant gardens or in perennial beds. Very hardy.

Dwarf, oval shaped evergreen shrub similar to ‘Torulosa’ but slower growing and more compact. Short, curly, blue-green needles give this plant a unique texture as a specimen in smaller gardens

Another introduction of the late Dr. Sydney Waxman of the University of Connecticut, ‘Connecticut Slate’ is a dense, spreading, quicker growing Dwarf White Pine that feautures gray-blue colored needles that make it stand out from the many other varieties on the market currently. The medium length, slate colored needles are tightly packed along the stems giving ‘Connecticut Slate’ a full appearance even though it is not as tightly dwarf as other types. It’s a great plant for a border area, thriving in full sun or partial shade, and it makes a beautiful specimen for a larger foundation area with color and form that is truly memorable.

Straight from the work of the late Dr. Sid Waxman at the University of Connecticut comes this beautiful, compact pine that just begs you to touch and feel it every time you see it. Soft, bluish-green needles are shorter than the needles of the species and are crowded together on tightly bunched stems to create a tight, yet very soft looking rounded mound that only grows about 4″ per year. ‘Blue Shag’ will retain its round form and become a landscape focal point, so be sure to give it enough room to spread and plant it in a sunny site with moist, well-drained soil so that you can enjoy it to its fullest.

This breathtaking selection combines great texture in the form of long, soft, light green needles that cascade down weeping branches to form narrow, upright, one-of-a-kind plant. Much more upright and tighter growing than ‘Pendula’ Deer Resistant. Spectacular specimen! Perfect for use near the foundation of a large house or in a garden near a water feature. Easy to grow and very hardy.

A signature native plant for the eastern woodland, Eastern White Pine is easy to grow and provides a multitude of landscape uses. Its long, soft needles are held in bundles of 5 and cover the plant thickly yet still give the plant a fine texture. This plant is widely used for barrier plantings, but it makes an outstanding single specimen that loves moist, well-drained soil while providing outstanding nesting area for a laundry list of native birds along with a food source from its production of cones and seed. Keep it from high salt areas and it will grow rapidly to be an appreciated, dominant evergreen in your landscape.