Baby Blue Colorado Blue Spruce

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

Baby blue colorado blue spruce.

The variety glauca is a latin word that indicates a grayish blue color and has been given to the silvery blue forms of the species that are selected for the ornamental nursery trade. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. 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. Superb container specimens or mass plant these baby spruces to make a privacy screen or a windbreak.

It has a low canopy and should not be planted underneath power lines. The baby blue spruce is a slow growing version of the native colorado blue spruce. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Baby blue colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 10 feet.

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. They are comparable to the best clones of that species. Picea pungens is the state tree of colorado and utah. Baby blue spruce can only be used in conjuction with trees originating from seed at west montrose farms ltd.

Baby blue spruce is a registered trademark in the us and canada. Picea pungens baby blue eyes sku 3843 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. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers.

It grows at a medium rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Excellent as a miniature evergreen tree in natural form perfect for smaller gardens or confined spaces. Every tree is very blue with needles arranged in a full round pattern.

A native tree from northern new mexico through colorado utah and wyoming and into alberta and british columbia. Baby blues are an excellent strain of colorado blue spruce. They are typically strong symmetrical growers.