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<\/a>Winter silver green foliage color of 'Vanderwolf Pyramid'<\/p><\/div> Vanderwolf Pyramid was introduced by New Jersey nurseryman Peter Vermeulen in 1967 and is a real eye catcher. Bluish-green needles are 4-6 inches long, bundled in fives, and are distinctively twisted. VP has an unusually long needle life of 5-7 years. Spring candle growths flaunt electric bluish-green needles which gradually turn a silvery green during winter. <\/p>\n VP has a fastigiate (upright) branching tree form, which tends to open up as the tree ages. VP is a medium-sized pine which matures 30 to 35 feet in height and 15 to 20 feet in width. Young trees transplant reliably, but older trees are less dependable because of a deep tap root system. <\/p>\n In general, limber pine thrives in a moist, well-drained soil in full sun and is tolerant of high pH soils. It has few serious diseases and pests problems, and deer don\u2019t seem to bother it.<\/p>\n VP typically grows slowly at the start and eventually 1 to 2 feet per year. Its common name refers to its flexible (\u201climber\u201d) branches which bend (give way) under heavy snow loads. The cultivar is commonly grafted onto P. flexilis<\/em> understock. Utilize as a single landscape specimen or as a privacy or wind screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Limber pine (Pinus flexilis), native to the Rocky Mountain region, has proven to be a reliable landscape evergreen tree in the Midwest and is gaining new fans in mid-South gardens (USDA hardiness zone 7-a). \u2018Vanderwolf Pyramid\u2019(VP) is a beautiful dwarf pine being planted by conifer collectors. It is hardy in USDA zone 5, and displays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,778,645,806,800,627,952,936,7,231,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLimber pine (Pinus flexilis<\/em>), native to the Rocky Mountain region, has proven to be a reliable landscape evergreen tree in the Midwest and is gaining new fans in mid-South gardens (USDA hardiness zone 7-a). \u2018Vanderwolf Pyramid\u2019(VP) is a beautiful dwarf pine being planted by conifer collectors. It is hardy in USDA zone 5, and displays poor heat tolerance in 7-b and further south.<\/p>\n