Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Another cultivar with silver blue color. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles.

This species is quite drought tolerant. Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. 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. 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. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

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. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Broad and conical when mature. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles.

Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape.

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. 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. This is a relatively low maintenance tree.

Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time.