Give the gift of a tree with this Douglas Fir seedling from The Jonsteen Company! The seedling comes packaged in a tube for easy gifting and includes a brochure with transplanting and care instructions. The tube measures 12 inches tall x 2 inches in diameter.
Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is one of the world's most impressive trees. One noted naturalist called Douglas Fir "the highest expression of tree greatness in our time." Indeed, the Douglas Fir species forms some of the tallest and most magnificent forests in the world, dominating millions of square miles of wild forest in the West, from Alaska to Mexico. Except for California's unique Sequoias, Douglas Fir grows taller and thicker than any other American tree. The tallest Douglas Fir on record, now felled, stood almost 400 feet tall with a diameter in excess of 17 feet. These long-living trees can survive to ages greater than 1,000 years and have a rapid growth rate. This species has long ranked first among U.S. lumber trees.
Widely cultivated as an ornamental in Europe, Douglas Fir, with its sweet fragrance and wonderful symmetry, is cherished in America as a prime Christmas Tree species. It is the official State Tree of Oregon and a hardy, well-traveled tree that can thrive virtually anywhere in the world, provided it gets adequate sunlight and moisture. Douglas Fir seedlings can handle almost any kind of soil or climate, and, ultimately, these trees become huge, incredibly tall, great-in-girth individuals, with soft, densely-set needles (to 1.5 inches long) radiating in all directions from the branches. The foliage has a distinct, pleasant fragrance, and the cones are highly unique, with unmistakable, conspicuously protruding trident bracts.
The Jonsteen Company is a California tree company and nursery known as the world's source for quality tree seedlings. Born in America's National Parks (c. 1992) as a supplier of live redwoods, they're on a mission to share the knowledge, joy, and experience of trees with everyone. All of their trees are seed-grown at our nursery on California's Redwood Coast, which is inspected monthly and licensed by the California Department of Agriculture.
