Dwarf Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

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Dwarf baby blue eyes spruce.

A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight.

The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles. However the depth of color and thickness of needles found in a colorado blue spruce can be hard to replicate. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage.

This dwarf evergreen produces a clear pyramidal form of fine branches covered with scaly purple tinged gray bark. The baby blue eyes spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant.

It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. 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. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

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