Baby Blue Colorado Spruce Tree

This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona.

Baby blue colorado spruce tree. Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground. This is a high maintenance tree that will require regular care and upkeep. 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. The needles are longer on lower branches and shorter on upper branches.

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. If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. After sixteen years of experimentation we now have a seed source with four very significant characteristics that sets it above all others.

Baby blue colorado blue spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. 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. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

History and origins of the baby blue eyes spruce. Baby blue spruce trees are an improved strain of the colorado blue spruce tree. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens.

They are comparable to the best blue clones of the species.