Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles. 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. 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. Broad and conical when mature.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. 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. This species is quite drought tolerant.

The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide.

The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size. Another cultivar with silver blue color. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.

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

Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.