Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Spruce
Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes.
Baby blue eyes colorado spruce. Growing at those high altitudes means this tree is super tough and cold resistant. Unit of measure quantity. This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.
Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. The coloration of this cultivar s needles is slightly grayer than that of other cultivars. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.
Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. It has blue gray needles. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. The blue spruce tree picea pungens named for its sharp ended needles is a coniferous evergreen member of the pine family also known as the colorado spruce.
Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Description in the nursery industry the spruce variant baby blue eyes is sold for its eye catching silvery blue foliage and smaller landscape size making it more desirable for confined spaces. Gallon s bloom color family. Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide.
It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. 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 a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Baby blue colorado spruce.
Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987. This tree grows all through the rocky mountains and all high places in the west from montana to arizona. N a evergreen height feet 100.
The needles grow straight out from the twigs and are secured with short leaf stems. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Picea pungens baby blue. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees.
As with other types of colorado blue spruces baby blue eyes has stiff 4 angled needles with tiny white lines. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight.