Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Trees

Ideal as an accent plant for small areas in the landscape.

Baby blue eyes spruce trees.

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. While not a true dwarf ornamental the baby blue eyes spruce tree is the closest thing to a dwarf evergreen tree on the market today. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work.

How to care for a diseased blue spruce tree. Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. 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 is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. Broad and conical when mature. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape.

Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Our favorite small evergreen tree is the baby blue eyes spruce. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.

But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Good live potted christmas tree. This is a relatively low maintenance tree.

The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. 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. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground.

Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Another cultivar with silver blue color. 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. Prefers a rich well drained soil.

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.