Douglas Fir
By Bathgate
5 May, 2014
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This magnificent specimen has a pyramid shape and a straight trunk. The needles are bluish green, occasionally yellowish green. It prefers sun or light shade, moist, well drained, acid or neutral soil, but is found in its native habit on rocky mountain slopes. Matures at 40'-70', 12'-20' spread in the home landscape, over 100' in a natural setting.
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We have the whole forest if these Bathgate. some are hundreds of years old .( Pseudotsuga menziesii) It is named after David Douglas, Scottish botanist but A. Menzies (also a Scott) first documented the tree on Vancouver Island in 1791. These trees on our property are very dear to me. There are not many of "old growth" forests around any more (thanks to logging).
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