Is Ponderosa Pine deer resistant?

You can smell it before you reach it: resin, off stiff yellowish-green needles five to ten inches long and bundled in threes. The crown lifts clear of browsing height within a decade or two, and established trees are left alone.

Sixty to a hundred and twenty-five feet, with a twenty-five to thirty foot spread - put that near a house and someone pays to take it down inside a generation. It is drought-resistant and wants deep sandy, gravelly or clay loam with real drainage; standing wet brings on root rot, and the tree is susceptible to wind damage on exposed sites.

Site it once, well out, and outside any watered turf. From seed, sow fresh and untreated in late fall; seedlings raised in containers survive planting out better than bare-root ones. Blister rust and needle blight are the other things to watch.