Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. 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. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark. 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.

Cold wind and snow have no effect on this hardy plant that takes minus 40 in its stride and will tolerate periods of drought too. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet.

The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Another cultivar with silver blue color. This species is quite drought tolerant. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles.

Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

Baby blue spruce will make an ideal specimen plant without any clipping but it can also be used for a knock out hedge that will stop any eyesore and look great all year round.