mugo

As a side note, there was a small mugo pine that was the original evergreen to be artfully pruned at the end of the gravel zen bed.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

Some additional plantings were added, Heucheras, Black mondo grass, Ophiopogon planiscapus from other garden beds and a small purchased mugo pine.

Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden 2010

I hope the little mugo lives, it was in sad shape for such a small plant.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

I agree about the girdling and hope to have staved off death by strangulation for the mugo.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

Mountain forests are composed of mixed beech (Fagus sylvatica) and silver fir (Abies alba), pure spruce (Picea abies), or prostrate pine (Pinus mugo) in the outer regions.

Alps conifer and mixed forests 2009

Closer to the interior, larch (Larix decidua), arolla pine (Pinus cembra), and scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) replaces P. mugo.

Alps conifer and mixed forests 2009

A dwarf mugo pine that will be pruned to an interesting shape as it grows was planted behind with the four heucheras rescued from the area.

Rock My World-A Zen Garden « Fairegarden 2009

The dominant species include Scots pine, Norway pine, silver fir, beech, occasional birch, mugo pine and juniper.

Durmitor National Park, Montenegro 2008

At the timberline belt of the Tatras mixed Pinus cembra-Larix decidua forests grow, similar those in central Alps. Above timberline, (1400 m in the north-western Carpathians to 1900 m in the south), there is a distinct krummholz zone consisting of dense thickets of mountain pine (Pinus mugo), dwarf juniper (Juniperus communis subsp. nana) and green alder (Alnus viridis).

Carpathian montane conifer forests 2008

Among the rare and protected plants of the Carpathians are several woody species: the stone pine Pinus cembra, mountain pine Pinus mugo, and the European yew Taxus baccata.

Carpathian montane conifer forests 2008