Baby Blue Colorado Spruce Tree

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

Baby blue colorado spruce tree.

Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. The baby blue spruce container grown carries a full pyramidal shape with a cone shaped crown and takes its name from the silvery blue color needles and growing slightly smaller than the traditional colorado blue spruce. 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. They are comparable to the best blue clones of the species.

After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others. Baby blue spruce trees are an improved strain of the colorado blue spruce tree. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona.

Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. 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.

Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. History and origins of the baby blue eyes spruce. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. 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.

Every tree is very blue with needles arranged in a full round pattern.