Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

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

Baby blue eyes spruce.

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued.

This species is quite drought tolerant. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Another cultivar with silver blue color.

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. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. 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. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson.

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. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

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. This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

Broad and conical when mature. Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. 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.