Baby Blue Spruce

Baby blue spruce is a registered trademark in the us and canada.

Baby blue spruce.

The needles are longer on lower branches and shorter on upper branches. The baby blue spruce container grown carries a full pyramidal shape with a cone shaped crown and takes its name from the silvery blue color needles and growing slightly smaller than the traditional colorado blue spruce. Baby blue spruce can only be used in conjuction with trees originating from seed at west montrose farms ltd. Baby blue is a mid sized spruce that reaches heights of between 15 and 20 feet and usually spans anywhere from six to ten feet across.

Baby blue colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 10 feet. It grows at a medium rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. It has a low canopy and should not be planted underneath power lines. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers.

The blue spruce picea pungens glauca which we have named baby blue is grown from seed harvested from a blue spruce orchard at west montrose farms ltd. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others.