Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet.

Baby blue eyes spruce. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size. This species is quite drought tolerant. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. 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. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles.

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. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles.

But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. 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 can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. Broad and conical when mature. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Another cultivar with silver blue color. This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

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.