Pine trees are very interesting plants, which have many features predisposing them to planting in home gardens. When designing a garden, it is worth considering the wide use of these trees and shrubs in the composition of greenery. This is supported by a number of advantages of these plants.

The undoubted advantage of pines is the beautiful appearance and the richness of interesting forms of growth – from dwarf forms with a compact habit, through bushy forms, Crying, up to large trees. These plants are great for composition with various other plants – different conifers, deciduous shrubs, heather plants, herbs, ornamental grasses. Pine trees are an inseparable element of rock gardens, Japanese and moors. They are also perfect for minimalist gardens in a modern style, but there will be a place for them in the free gardens with rustic, or forest character.

In addition to their attractive appearance, the great advantage of pines is their high resistance to both frost and drought, as well as diseases and pests. Pine trees have small, or very low soil requirements, and very low water demand, what makes, that they can grow on barren, sandy and stony soils, although they can also cope on more loamy and peat soils. Exceptional resistance and low cultivation requirements make, that pines are plants very easy to grow, not requiring many maintenance works.

For home gardens, varieties of pine are suitable, Mountain (mountain pine trees), Black, dense-flowered, small-flowered, Bosnian, limbs, Himalayan. Among the many varieties of different species of pines, special attention should be paid to the following:

• Watereria Pine
• Pine Ordinary Fastigiata
• Mountain Pine Pug
• Ophir Mountain Pine
• Wintergold Mountain Pine
• Mountain pine Varella
• Mountain pine var. turn up
• Bosnian pine of Smidtii
• Bosnian Pine Sattlelit
• Bosnian Pine Compact Gem
• Bosnian Pine Horak
• BREPO Black Pine
• Pyramidalis Black Pine
• Black Pine Spillberg
• Small-flowered Negishi pine
• Dense-flowered pine Ocullus draconis
• Dense-flowered pine Alice Verkrade
• Dense-flowered pine Umbracifera