Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems. Picea pungens baby blue. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. N a evergreen height feet 100. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines.

This native of the rocky mountain. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. It has blue gray needles.

Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona. Gallon s bloom color family.

A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. 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 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 spruce. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Description in the nursery industry the spruce variant baby blue eyes is sold for its eye catching silvery blue foliage and smaller landscape size making it more desirable for confined spaces. 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 a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Unit of measure quantity. Baby blue colorado spruce.