Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

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

Baby blue eyes spruce.

Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. The baby blue eyes spruce is an evergreen tree of a narrow conical form staying perfectly symmetrical without trimming. The silver blue foliage adds color to the winter landscape.

This species is quite drought tolerant. This is a relatively low maintenance tree. 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 baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size.

Cold wind and snow have no effect on this hardy plant that takes minus 40 in its stride and will tolerate periods of drought too. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Another cultivar with silver blue color.

Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Picea pungens baby blue eyes. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Broad and conical when mature.

Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Younger trees are relatively broad and as the tree becomes older it becomes narrower but it remains much denser and fuller than other common blue spruce trees. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson.

Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well. Baby blue spruce will make an ideal specimen plant without any clipping but it can also be used for a knock out hedge that will stop any eyesore and look great all year round. Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark.

The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles.