Baby Blue Spruce In Landscape

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

Baby blue spruce in landscape. Makes a formal statement in the garden. 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. Avoid pruning it too extremely as new growth won t sprout from areas of dead wood where no needles are present. This is a relatively low maintenance tree.

The needles are longer on lower branches and shorter on upper branches. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. The deer resistant blue spruce will thrive in either full or partial sun in fertile moist well drained soils but tolerates dry conditions better than most other spruces. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. The baby blue spruce is a slow growing version of the native colorado blue spruce. This baby blue spruce container grown tree is grown in northern michigan at dutchman tree farms landscape nursery for container grown evergreens. Excellent as a miniature evergreen tree in natural form perfect for smaller gardens or confined spaces.