Dwarf Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Dwarf baby blue eyes spruce. It grows at a slow 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. However the depth of color and thickness of needles found in a colorado blue spruce can be hard to replicate. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines.

A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. 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. This dwarf evergreen produces a clear pyramidal form of fine branches covered with scaly purple tinged gray bark.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. This species is quite drought tolerant. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. 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 eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet.