Baby Blue Colorado Blue Spruce

The variety glauca is a latin word that indicates a grayish blue color and has been given to the silvery blue forms of the species that are selected for the ornamental nursery trade.

Baby blue colorado blue spruce.

It grows at a medium rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others. They are typically strong symmetrical growers.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes sku 3843 slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. 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. It has a low canopy and should not be planted underneath power lines. They are comparable to the best clones of that species.

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. Baby blue spruce is a registered trademark in the us and canada. Superb container specimens or mass plant these baby spruces to make a privacy screen or a windbreak. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground.

The baby blue spruce is a slow growing version of the native colorado blue spruce. A native tree from northern new mexico through colorado utah and wyoming and into alberta and british columbia. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Picea pungens is the state tree of colorado and utah.

If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Baby blue colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 10 feet. Baby blues are an excellent strain of colorado blue spruce.

Every tree is very blue with needles arranged in a full round pattern. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. The blue spruce picea pungens glauca which we have named baby blue is grown from seed harvested from a blue spruce orchard at west montrose farms ltd.