Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Winter is a great time to take a close look at evergreens, such as the Fukuzumi Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora ‘Fukuzumi’).

What: The name Pinus parviflora Glauca Group represents blue-needled selections of the lovely Japanese white pine. Each of their blue needles has a white stripe. These slow-growing evergreen trees ...

try Pinus parviflora “Blue Lou”( also known as Blue Lou Japanese white pine). Blue Lou is a very slow grower, becoming a dense, broad mound at 3 feet tall by 4 feet wide in 10 years.

Bob Hunter has spent 40 years caring for a Japanese white pine: pruning, training, picking the right soil and watering it twice a day. Under his constant care, the tree has grown to 4 feet tall.

The Japanese white pine, which was potted 390 years ago, belonged to a family that lived within two miles of where American forces dropped the atomic bomb 70 years ago this week. The family had ...