Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

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

Baby blue eyes spruce.

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles. Another cultivar with silver blue color.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

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 species is quite drought tolerant. 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.

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Cold wind and snow have no effect on this hardy plant that takes minus 40 in its stride and will tolerate periods of drought too. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. 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. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming.

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

Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.