Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Picea pungens baby blue. N a evergreen height feet 100. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars.

As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines. Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide. 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 tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. 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. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. 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.

Baby blue colorado spruce. It has blue gray needles. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant.

Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet.

Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. 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. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri.

It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees. Unit of measure quantity.