Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. Baby blue colorado spruce.

Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Unit of measure quantity. N a evergreen height feet 100.

It has blue gray needles. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Picea pungens baby blue.

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. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Gallon s bloom color family. 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. 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.

This native of the rocky mountain. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars.