The Rosemont Boys

Longleaf Pine has the longest pine needles of any North American pine. It once covered millions of acres across the southeastern US, evolving to thrive in a fire-dependent habitat. It undergoes several distinctive growth stages. For the first several years, it slowly grows in the ‘grass stage,’ appearing as a large rosette of needles close to the ground. It then bolts to the sky in a branchless ‘bottlebrush stage,’ growing several feet in a year.

 

Matthew planted our tree as a grass stage, and it has grown to its current height in just 5 years! Now that it has branches, it is in its sapling stage.