Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. 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. Another cultivar with silver blue color.

Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. Broad and conical when mature. Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark. 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. 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 features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. This species is quite drought tolerant.

Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. 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. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. This is a relatively low maintenance tree.

Younger trees are relatively broad and as the tree becomes older it becomes narrower but it remains much denser and fuller than other common blue spruce trees. The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. 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.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes.