Baby Blue Colorado Blue Spruce

Picea pungens baby blue eyes sku 3843 slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

Baby blue colorado blue spruce.

Baby blues are an excellent strain of colorado blue spruce. They are typically strong symmetrical growers. Baby blue is a mid sized spruce that reaches heights of between 15 and 20 feet and usually spans anywhere from six to ten feet across. The variety glauca is a latin word that indicates a grayish blue color and has been given to the silvery blue forms of the species that are selected for the ornamental nursery trade.

Baby blue spruce can only be used in conjuction with trees originating from seed at west montrose farms ltd. It grows at a medium rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Baby blue spruce is a registered trademark in the us and canada. Picea pungens is the state tree of colorado and utah.

Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. A native tree from northern new mexico through colorado utah and wyoming and into alberta and british columbia. Superb container specimens or mass plant these baby spruces to make a privacy screen or a windbreak. Makes a formal statement in the garden.

The baby blue spruce is a slow growing version of the native colorado blue spruce. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It is reported to be not as cold hardy as most plants in this species reported to suffer winter die back in usda zone 3. Baby blue colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 10 feet.

Excellent as a miniature evergreen tree in natural form perfect for smaller gardens or confined spaces. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others. The blue spruce picea pungens glauca which we have named baby blue is grown from seed harvested from a blue spruce orchard at west montrose farms ltd.

Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. They are comparable to the best clones of that species.