Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
A fast, long-lived native pine with soft, feathery, bluish-green needles and an open crown that grows more picturesque with age, lovely as a specimen, screen or clipped hedge. It wants room and well-drained soil, and it doesn't take salt, air pollution, alkaline soil or heavy, wet clay.
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- Mature size
- 65 × 30 ft
- 20 × 9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–7b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Dry to moist
Eastern White Pine at its mature size
A mature Eastern White Pine grows 50 to 80 feet tall and 20 to 40 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Morton Arboretum.
Through the year
What Eastern White Pine looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Soft long blue-green needles in horizontal tiers.
Photos
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Growing Eastern White Pine
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Midwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, specimen, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Eastern North America
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Eastern White Pine, that’s about 30 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Eastern White Pine in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other pines
Singleleaf Pinyon
Eastern White PineAll drawn to the same scale.