Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Trees

The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems.

Baby blue eyes spruce trees.

While not a true dwarf ornamental the baby blue eyes spruce tree is the closest thing to a dwarf evergreen tree on the market today. Pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Our favorite small evergreen tree is the baby blue eyes spruce. As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines.

Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. 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. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. Ideal as an accent plant for small areas in the landscape.

Spruce baby blue eyes. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. 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. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide.

Younger trees are relatively broad and as the tree becomes older it becomes narrower but it remains much denser and fuller than other common blue spruce trees. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. This is a relatively low maintenance tree.

Prefers a rich well drained soil. How to care for a diseased blue spruce tree. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground.

A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

Broad and conical when mature.