Pinus flexilis / Limber Pine

Planted in spring 2006.

I got this a t Gledhill and put it at the edge of the road cut.

Spring ‘07 I moved this a few feet in from the road, and it seemed to do well even after that move.  Blue green needles, growing well, getting bushy.  Need this for an evergreen screen along the road.

11/18/2010

4/1/12

It's growing, but keeping an open shape, and living up to its name of flexible pine. And it is starting to screen the road as intended.

1/15/14

The limber pine is a very nice color, a deep blue green when compared to the white pines nearby and certainly bluer than the Eastern red cedars (junipers) next to it. It's actually odd, the colors are so off next to each other.

Here they are lined up, screening the road in early spring.

4/28/14

Thinking I might take out the junipers -- by themselves they are an okay olive green next to the forsythias, but next to the limber pine they end up looking icky. And they aren't really needed for screening any more with the bulk of the forsythia hedge there.

The limber pine in 2015 is looking a little rangy. It's shaded by the sweetgum and maple in front, and the forsythia hedge behind. It's too bad -- this is striking conifer and it's mostly hidden and shaded now. But it does add to the screening at the roadside.

4/30/15

Propagate:
By graft.