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Japanese Red Pine 'Alice Verkade (2L) Tree - Pinus densiflora 🇬🇧 UK Grown

Japanese Red Pine 'Alice Verkade (2L) Tree - Pinus densiflora 🇬🇧 UK Grown

The Japanese Red Pine 'Alice Verkade' enhances gardens with its unique red bark and lush green needles. This Pinus densiflora cultivar is celebrated for its beauty and ease of care, thriving in a range of UK garden settings. It's a perfect choice for adding structure and colour.

The Japanese Red Pine ‘Alice Verkade’ is a captivating addition to any garden or landscape. This cultivar of Pinus densiflora stands out for its vibrant red bark and graceful, spreading branches. Ideal for UK climates, ‘Alice Verkade’ thrives in a variety of soil types, showing resilience in both dry and moist conditions.

This tree’s adaptability makes it a preferred choice for gardeners seeking a low-maintenance yet striking specimen. Its needles, rich in colour, add texture and depth to garden designs, while its overall structure provides year-round interest. Gardeners value this tree not only for its aesthetic appeal but also for its ability to attract wildlife, offering shelter and sustenance to local bird species.

The Japanese Red Pine ‘Alice Verkade’ grows best in full sun to partial shade, reaching maturity with a distinctive, yet manageable, size and shape.

The Japanese Red Pine ‘Alice Verkade’ requires minimal care once established. It prefers a sunny to partially shaded spot in the garden. Water young trees regularly until they are fully established. Mulching helps retain moisture and suppress weeds. Annual pruning is not necessary but remove any dead or damaged branches to maintain its appearance and health.

Hardy everywhere in the UK down to -20C.

Ultimate height
1–1.5 metres

Time to ultimate height
20–50 years

Ultimate spread
1–1.5 metres

🇬🇧 UK Grown

Supplied in a 2 litre pot approx 20/40cm tall

 

About Us

Yarrow Gardens is a small family business based in Euxton, West Lancashire. We grow most of our own stock here on our nursery. We have young saplings, year old saplings through to much larger and older specimens for sale. Trees are seeds are available all year round for delivery and collection from our nursery.

We are DEFRA registered and our nursery is regularly inspected to confirm compliance with all current plant and plant health regulations.

We are actively working towards the Grown in Britain certification along with the Plant Healthy certification.

Plant Passport Registration Number: GB140010

Yarrow Gardens Limited. Registered in the United Kingdom: 13411784

Postage

For most of our deliveries we use Royal Mail 2nd Class, Evri or UPS for slightly larger orders. We ask you to allow 4-5 working days for the items to arrive, perhaps slightly longer during peak times. Our postage is included in the price you pay. "Free delivery" isn't really free - it has a cost to us as the seller, so we are trusting couriers with your orders.

We dispatch Monday - Thursday. We don't dispatch on Friday or weekends to prevent your live plants potentially being stuck in a warehouse all weekend.

We try make all our packaging compostable at home, the tape, the box and the labels. Occasionally we'll use some non-compostable tape or bags to secure your items. We post all our trees safely and securely in a cardboard box, please note sometimes we'll reuse boxes or material to save our planet.

Please be aware that any postal service can be subject to unforeseen delays beyond our control, we are also bound by the postal service guidelines for declaring an item lost which ranges from 15-60 days depending the courier service we use. If your item is delayed, please contact us through eBay, so we can help you. Please contact us before leaving any feedback as will always resolve the issue for you.

Collection

Collection from Euxton is available on prior arrangement.

Please contact us if you have any questions.