piñon pine

A tree collected just under 3 years ago. I repotted this year into this Sam Miller pot, and found the base and trunk much longer than originally thought. This is one of those trees I was practicing my piñon collecting efforts on. Plus the needles are exceptionally small for a piñon. Coming...

The piñon pine. Yes I’m referring to New Mexico based pine not the Colorado pinyon, which I’m convinced the only difference is the lack of the ñ in the spelling and pronunciation. But that’s more shit talk that biological knowledge. I’ve long thought these could be phenomenal specimen for...

This is my other piñon pine that had its first styling this fall. Collected in summer 21 it was time. I kept thinking it was a mistaken collection due to its lack of great presence and natural features. I ultimately decided a more slanting style would suit this tree best. Still deciding on...