Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce

Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Baby blue eyes colorado spruce.

This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Gallon s bloom color family.

Unit of measure quantity. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes. It has blue gray needles. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely.

Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. This native of the rocky mountain. 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. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant.

Baby blue colorado spruce. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. 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. N a evergreen height feet 100.

Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens.

In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii 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 spruce. The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems.