The plant of the month for August is Austrian Pine. Austrian Pine is a bold-textured and urban-tolerant (including Winter salt spray) Pine, having a broad-pyramidal growth habit with ascending branches and showy Spring candles, and often developing a flat-topped crown and ornamental bark with extreme age. This evergreen tree can be used either as a single specimen, or in group or mass plantings as a visual screen or windbreak, and will cast dense shade with maturity.