Catalog Description
Distinctive, pyramid shaped pine with long, twisted, silvery, blue-green needles displayed on dense branches. A superior selection for lawn specimen, accent tree or windbreak. Resistant to insects and disease. Evergreen. Full sun. Slow grower to 20 to 25 feet tall, 10 to 15 feet wide, larger with age. Grafted.
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Design Ideas
This Pine produces fluffy foliage that resembles a Cedar from a distance. It is remarkably resilient and an important component in Midwestern shelterbelts and windbreaks. Adapts well to dry conditions in the West, both in semidesert and mountain foothill regions where soils are thin and poor. Makes a very graceful single specimen for front yards, parks or expansive estate-sized landscapes.
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Companion Plants
Limber Pine blends well with other resiliant broadleaf trees such as Cottonless Cottonwood, (Populus x `Red Caudina`), or Crimson King Norway Maple, (Acer platanoides `Crimson King`).
Contrasts nicely with Colorado Blue Spruce, (Picea pungens `Glauca`) and Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, (Pseudotsuga menziesii `Glauca`).
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Average Landscape Size
Slow grower to 20 to 25 ft. tall, 10 to 15 ft. wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Distinctive, pyramid shaped pine with long, twisted silvery blue-green needles displayed on dense branches. A superior selection for lawn specimen and accent. Resistant to insects and disease. Evergreen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Slow Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Pyramidal |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 7 (>60 to 90 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 7 (0 to 10 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 2 (-50 to -40 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Once established needs only occasional water. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
None
| Flower Color |
| No Value |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Produces no flowers. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Grafted |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring |
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Attributes
Attractive Fruit
Drought Tolerant
Easy Care Plant
Extremely Hardy
Fruit-Bearing
Attracts Wildlife
Native Plant
Pest Resistant
Year-round Interest
Deer Resistant
Disease Resistant |
Foliage
Silvery-tinged, twisted needles in 5's
| Foliage Shape | Linear |
| Normal foliage color | Blue |
| Underside foliage | Blue |
| Juvenile foliage | Blue |
| Mature foliage | Blue |
| New foliage | Blue |
| Spring foliage | Pink |
| Summer foliage | Blue |
| Fall foliage | Blue |
| Winter foliage | Blue |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
This is a moderately sized forest tree that is native to a large range of the Rocky Mountains from Wyoming to New Mexico and into parts of California and the most of the west. It was first identified and classified by Rocky Mountain plant collector and botanist, Edwin James, 1797-1861. It was strangely misclassified later into its own genus as Apinus flexilis by Per Axel Rydberg, 1860-1931, while he was with the New York Botanical Garden. This patented variety is not doubt an offspring or sport of P. f. glauca due to the blue-green foliage, and may be the only widely grown form of this species in cultivation today. |
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