The Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) came up in PM discussions today. What a wonderful pine. They would not survive down here in the desert, or I would consider growing one.

To the gnarled, twisted, Scottish curmudgeon of pines.


I had to try to find something pine related from Robert Burns's, and so far there is a reference in "The Lass O' Ballochmyle":

Then pride might climb the slipp'ry steep,
Where frame and honours lofty shine;
And thirst of gold might tempt the deep,
Give me the cot below the pine,
To tend the flocks or till the soil;
And ev'ry day have joys divine
With the bonie lass o' Ballochmyle.