Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. 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. 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. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time.

Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet.

This species is quite drought tolerant. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. 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. Another cultivar with silver blue color. 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.

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. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size.

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. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. 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 is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage.

Broad and conical when mature.