Privet haters club? How do I join?! Just kidding. I’ve never actually grown it, but I did stay at a BnB outside Danville, KY, that had it all around the property. The scent was oddly nauseaus and inviting at the same time. Anyhow, congrats on your purchase and I hope you’ll share a pic of it in the garden.

All settled in with a few new friends.

I like it. it’s a nice counter to the pine. Pinus parviflora? it looks like it’s sitting in an invisible recliner…or is the recliner.

artinnature is your new one the exact same kind as in the display garden? The foliage on your new one seems different - bigger leaves maybe? I love the foliage on both though!

I'm not too familiar with this plant. I see you have in planted in front - will it stay compact then?

:)

Dee

@maackia - It is Pinus parviflora 'Fukuzumi', probably the most "windswept" cultivar.

@diggerdee - I'm fairly certain its the same cultivar. It is described as very slow growing and quite narrow. I don't think very many people are familiar with this plant, I've seen exactly three in my life, one at Sebright, and the two plants for sale at baumanfarms.com, and they only ordered two because I have the Monrovia tag to prove it! The Sebright plant appears to be putting on about six inches per year vertically, almost nothing horizontally, but I may be wrong about that.

The goal in my front garden is to create an enclosed, private sitting area. L. japonicum 'Rutundifoilum' and many other friends are the walls of this sitting area.

I have a "Fukuzumi' as well!! I fell in love with this tree while plant shopping with some design clients for a low growing specimen plant for their entry. It really does have a very dramatic windswept look. They shelled out nearly a grand for their big boxed specimen........mine was appreciably smaller and much more reasonably priced :-) Of course mine is in a container but it is doing well and has grown more than I expected, now with a very directional branch (leader?) heading out a good 4 feet.

Of course you have Fukuzumi, you have great taste Pam! I passed by dozens of "too expensive" specimens before finally finding one that seemed like a pretty good value. Mine has doubled in size rather quickly, and has also become fairly dense, and I have not touched it with the pruners!

I was amused by this quote from Michael Dirr, in his Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs (2012) regarding L. japonicum Rotundifolium: “a stiff, upright, confused-looking plant, akin to the person in shorts at a black-tie shindig." Dirr also notes: The rounded, 1 to 2 1/2” long leaves are curiously twisted and closely spaced along the stems. Has flowered and fruited. Grows 4 to 6 ft. high. Less hardy than the species and was defoliated at -3F.”

The fact that it produces seed would be a concern in those areas of the country (much of the Southeast, parts of California, and possibly the PNW) where this species is invasive or potentially invasive.

arbordave - Ha! Dirr gonna be Dirr, and I wouldn't have him any other way! Love his recent YouTube videos!

Re: seed production, 'Texanum' is ubiquitous on the west coast, the horse is out the barn on that issue.