Baby Blue Colorado Blue Spruce

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

Baby blue colorado blue spruce.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. They are comparable to the best clones of that species. The baby blue spruce is a slow growing version of the native colorado blue spruce. Makes a formal statement in the garden.

They are typically strong symmetrical growers. 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 is a registered trademark in the us and canada. It has a low canopy and should not be planted underneath power lines.

Excellent as a miniature evergreen tree in natural form perfect for smaller gardens or confined spaces. Baby blue colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 10 feet. Superb container specimens or mass plant these baby spruces to make a privacy screen or a windbreak. 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.

Baby blues are an excellent strain of colorado blue spruce. Every tree is very blue with needles arranged in a full round pattern. 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. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight.

Picea pungens is the state tree of colorado and utah. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. 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. A native tree from northern new mexico through colorado utah and wyoming and into alberta and british columbia.

After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others. 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. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground.