Spruce - Baby Blue #10

Picea pungens 'Baby Blue'

Height:  30 feet - Spread:  15 feet - Sunlight:  full sun Hardiness Zone:  3a

Other Names:  Blue Colorado Spruce;Colorado Blue Spruce

Description:

A shimmering blue evergreen tree, with a dense habit, full stout branches, and elegant silvery-blue needles, a tree of great beauty and color which is retained throughout the year; extremely hardy and rugged

Ornamental Features

Baby Blue Blue Spruce is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive silvery blue evergreen foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain silvery blue throughout the winter. The rough gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

Landscape Attributes

Baby Blue Blue Spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. 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.