Planting pine trees offer a landowner a lot of advantages. Pine trees are fast-growing trees, provide timber harvesting for income, and are excellent for privacy fences. Some popular types of pine exist that make excellent additions to any landscape include the loblolly pine, white pine, and spruce pine.

Loblolly Pine

Pinus taeda, or the loblolly pine, is also known as the Oldfield pine, bull pine, and rosemary pine. This fast-growing tree remains one of the primary commercially grown southern pines. The large, fragrant, resinous and attractive pine has a rounded crown of branches that spread. Pinus taeda can reach from 60 to 110 feet tall. Its bark is gray and scaly, and the pine has long dark needles.

Birds and butterflies, especially the elfin butterfly, are attracted to this quickly growing pine.

This pine grows naturally in the coastal planes from New Jersey to Florida. It originally grew in the southern United States. Pinus taeda prefers a wet climate, sandy, acidic soil, and partial shade. One advantage of raising this variety of pine is that it is proliferating, bringing fast results for people who grow the tree for timber harvesting for income.

Spruce Pine

Pinus glabra or the spruce tree remains a native North American tree. The spruce might be best known as a top choice for a Christmas tree. It tolerates a wide variety of conditions such as poor, wet or dry soils, making it adaptable to many growing conditions. The spruce grows best in sunny conditions in acidic soil. However, it tolerates alkaline soils, too. This tree tolerates partial shade as well as full sun.

This versatile tree grows to a height of 30 to 50 feet but can reach a height of 80 feet tall. Its needle-like leaves produce two to four-inch needles. It has brownish-grey bark. The spruce makes an excellent windbreak, or screen tree is magnificent for privacy fences and creates a light shade that helps smaller shade-loving trees thrive. Some of the landscaping uses for pinus glabra include windbreaks, parking lot trees, tree lawns, and parking lot buffers. Squirrels and birds are attracted to the spruce pine tree.

White Pine

The white pine, or Pinus strobus L., remains the most massive pine tree grown in the US. Its blue-green needles grow to a length of two and a half to five inches long. Pinus strobus L. remains one of the essential pine trees grown in North America for several reasons. The tree grows very tall and makes an impressive statement on a person's property. Historically, this pine has frequently been used for a wide variety of commercial purposes and is excellent for privacy fences.

The needles on this pine tree grow to up to five inches long. The tree's bark is smooth and greenish-brown in color when it is young, adding interesting texture to an outdoor space. Older trees have a dark grey, fissured bark.

Pinus strobus L. prefers moderate levels of sun and likes sandy, loam soils. However, the tree tolerates rocky ridges and bogs very well. If you're having trouble finding a tree to grow in a specific area of your landscape, the pinus strobus L. might the answer to your landscape issues. It matures quickly and reproduces well so that it can fill up space in your yard or on your property. Many landscapers select this pine because it causes fewer allergic reactions than other types of pine trees. This tree attracts birds such as chickadees, and red crossbills, who love its seeds.