Pine Trees Growing at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

A selection of good evergreen trees includes, in addition to those named under "shade trees" above, white fir, nordman fir, Nikko fir, douglas fir, engleman spruce, oriental spruce, white spruce, Norway spruce, Colorado blue spruce, white pine, Swiss stone pine, Austrian pine, red pine, Scot's pine, Japanese black pine, red cedar, sawara cypress, Nootka cypress, lawson cypress, deodar cedar, Atlantic cedar, cedar of Lebanon, hemlocks, arborvitaes, yews and hollies. •

Trees. The climate is highly favorable to the growth of trees; originally most of the land below 1,000 feet (300 meters) must have been covered with forest, but now the area of useful timber is only a small fraction of the whole. Birch and pine were the first trees to creep back after the end of the ice age, followed by the more characteristic deciduous trees. The hard but slow-growing oak is found over most of the islands, while the beech favors the chalky lands of the south. The elm and the ash will grow in most parts; they flourish, self-sown, in the hedges that surround most English fields and are perhaps the most characteristic feature of the countryside.

The rock is shaded from the direct morning sun by the house. By noon it is in the open shade of a very old beech tree that grows beside a fieldstone Wall at the edge of the yard, and in late afternoon, sunlight is filtered through tall pine trees growing on the other side of the driveway. Until the trees leaf out in late spring and again in midsummer when the sun is high, the rock gets some direct sun.