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Low Glow Japanese Red Pine
Pinus densiflora ‘Low Glow’
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Low Glow Japanese Red Pine - Pinus densiflora ‘Low Glow’
A dwarf, ground-hugging selection of the Japanese red pine, Pinus densiflora, grown for a dense green cushion rather than for height. Where the species eventually makes a timber tree, this form spreads wider than it grows tall, so it can be planted at the front of a bed or beside a path and largely left alone. Designers reach for it when a gravel courtyard or rockery needs permanent evergreen mass at knee height without the bulk of a conifer hedge.
Why Low Glow Japanese Red Pine
Low mounding habit: Growth is broad and flat-topped, typically two to three times as wide as it is high, so it never blocks a sightline.
Needle density: Paired mid-green needles are held tightly along short annual growth, giving a solid surface rather than an open, twiggy frame.
Cinnamon bark: Older branches develop the flaking orange-red bark the species is named for, which shows well when the lower skirt is lifted.
Cold hardiness: Comfortable through frost and snow in the Australian tablelands, Adelaide Hills and Tasmania where many broadleaf shrubs sulk.
Low upkeep: Candles can be pinched in spring to tighten the form, but no shearing or annual pruning programme is required.
Ideal Applications
Rock and gravel gardens: Sits naturally among boulders and decomposed granite where drainage is sharp and reflected heat is high.
Japanese and courtyard planting: Supplies the low evergreen anchor in a raked gravel or moss-and-stone composition.
Front-of-border structure: Holds a bed together through winter when perennials have been cut back.
Large containers: Tolerates a big pot or raised planter provided the mix is gritty and free draining.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 1.5m for a continuous low band
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m so each plant keeps its own outline
Best Planting Season: Autumn through early spring in temperate districts, avoiding the peak of summer
Soil & Drainage: Sandy or gravelly loam, slightly acid, sharply drained; will not tolerate waterlogging or heavy clay without a raised bed
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week through the first two summers rather than little and often, letting the surface dry between soakings. Mulch with coarse pine bark or gravel to 60mm, pulled back clear of the trunk to keep collar rot away.
Plant Details
Height: 0.8 to 1.2m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun; open positions give the tightest growth
Native to: Japan, Korea and north-eastern China (species)
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







