Limber Pine
Pinus flexilis
H: 35 feet W: 15–20 feet
Zone 2
Full sun
Original price was: $160.$128Current price is: $128.
Limber pine is a rugged, Wyoming-native evergreen admired for its soft blue-green needles and naturally irregular, picturesque form. Well adapted to high elevations and harsh conditions, it tolerates cold, wind, drought, and poor soils with remarkable resilience. In the landscape, limber pine works beautifully as a specimen tree, in naturalized groupings, or as a structural anchor in native and mountain-inspired designs. Its flexible branches and open habit give it a relaxed, organic character that contrasts well with more formal evergreens. Low-maintenance and long-lived, limber pine brings durability, beauty, and a strong sense of place to central Wyoming landscapes.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.