sure.. i predict it will die.. any time in the next 2 to 50 years ...

crikey ... lets see the whole thing...

and how about some history on it not thriving.. large transplant... BB.. etc ???/

if i cut down every plant with that kind of look... i would be out half my collection ...

ken

If you had a cold winter maybe it froze.

I will have to get pics of the whole tree tomorrow. This is all I took today, KEN. lol It was a large b&b transplant about 8 years ago or so. Most Vanderwolf's that I see are fuller and fairly blue. This one is more sparse - looks like a white pine growing in Colorado (only reference I had from my childhood years). The central leader died three years ago and it still has no leader and really hasn't grown much in the last few years at all. The cold issue could be correct, Embothrium. The last two winters we had were brutal and this just started this year.

doenst look like any of my flexilus ...

i had two z4 winters in a row in my z5 ... i dont think i have any issue with P. f..'s .... will try to take a look

ken

this is a more of wht they look like in my garden .. boy this is 10 minutes i will never have back.. lol ... ken

see what i mean? similar but different. look how blue yours is. mine...not so much. up close it is bluer but it's so sparse. clearly yours has like 87 leaders. lol

Any ideas on the issue w/ mine?

Thanks for your reply. This one has been in the ground ...maybe 8 yrs now? I don't recall seeing these issues until the last two winters. I guess I'll just keep an eye on it and if it declines further...will shovel - err backhoe - prune it. lol

here is what they look like if you candle prune every two years

ron