The Washington Post, October 20th, 1994
Sometimes, a garden has room for just one tree. But one choice tree by itself can make a garden. There are a fair number of tree species that fit the bill. A venerable one on the list is Pinus bungeana, variously known as lacebark pine or whitebark pine. From a distance, its appeal lies in its cluster of many trunks, suggesting at this far-off scale a bouquet of meadow flowers or a clump of ornamental grass. But close up, the observer is impressed with another kind of beauty: a mottled, exfoliating bark that offers not only grays, beiges, greens and chalky white but patches of purple as well. ...
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