Dwarf Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely.

Dwarf baby blue eyes spruce.

A typical colorado blue spruce will grow 50 75 feet tall and 20 feet wide. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. 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. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. However the depth of color and thickness of needles found in a colorado blue spruce can be hard to replicate. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet.

Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.

While not a true dwarf ornamental the baby blue eyes spruce tree is the closest thing to a dwarf evergreen tree on the market today. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. For homeowners with size constraints this simply will not work.

The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles. This dwarf evergreen produces a clear pyramidal form of fine branches covered with scaly purple tinged gray bark. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. 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.