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The Collection
Pinus thunbergii Japanese Black Pine
Specimen Views
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Character
This tree does not grow upward. It grows outward — ten feet of deliberate horizontal extension, the entire canopy carried sideways through space in a long, unhurried gesture that defies what you expect a tree to do. The form was shaped with a vision: a living canopy designed to hang over water, to stretch across a terrace edge, to extend beyond its own base into the open air above a pool or spa. As the trunk commits to the horizontal, the pads spread in a complex arrangement — varied in size and spacing, layered at different heights, each one reaching a little further than the last. It is a form that rewards every angle. At the base, the nebari tells the real story. Roots fan outward and grip the ground with an aggressive tenacity that matches the drama of what they support — the visible anchor holding ten feet of horizontal weight in place. This is structural commitment written in wood. Among the most striking trees in the collection, and one of the most deliberately conceived.
Visualized in setting
In Context
This tree was shaped for the edge — the bank of a reflecting pool, the stone lip of a terrace, the boundary where land meets water. Planted so the canopy extends over a swimming pool or spa, it becomes the defining element of the entire space. Equally powerful beside a koi pond, along a garden stream, or reaching across a patio where its shadow plays on the surface below.
Specimen No. 10
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