Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Trees

Prefers a rich well drained soil.

Baby blue eyes spruce trees.

A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. 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. For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

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. As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson.

The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. Our favorite small evergreen tree is the baby blue eyes spruce.

Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. 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. How to care for a diseased blue spruce tree. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely.

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. 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 silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. 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. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Another cultivar with silver blue color. Pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form.

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