the lonesome pine

We have a Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris) growing in a pot in the front garden.  It’s over 30 years old and was planted as seed (though not by us).  It has now reached the dizzy height of 3 feet.  Although in its natural habitat it would be 10-20 times that height by now.

Every few years it produces a cone.  This is the 2016 effort.  Currently about 1 cm long and in a rather fetching shade of purple, it reminds me of wild places in a way no other garden plant manages to do.