Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

Baby blue colorado spruce.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. This native of the rocky mountain. Gallon s bloom color family.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes. This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high. N a evergreen height feet 100. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes.

The blue spruce tree picea pungens named for its sharp ended needles is a coniferous evergreen member of the pine family also known as the colorado spruce. Description in the nursery industry the spruce variant baby blue eyes is sold for its eye catching silvery blue foliage and smaller landscape size making it more desirable for confined spaces. It has blue gray needles. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines.

In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. Unit of measure quantity. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet.

Picea pungens baby blue. 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.