Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Unit of measure quantity. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines.

Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Picea pungens baby blue.

It has blue gray needles. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. N a evergreen height feet 100.

This native of the rocky mountain. Gallon s bloom color family. 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. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens.

Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. 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. 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.

A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona.