![]() 'Baby Blue Eyes', 'Bakeri', 'Compacta', 'Fat Albert', 'Foxtail', 'Glauca', 'Glauca Globosa', 'Glauca Pendula', 'Hoopsii', 'Mission Blue', 'Moerheimii', 'Montgomery', 'Otto von Bismark', 'Pendula', 'Roundabout', 'Thompsenii' Glaucous silver-blue foliage, symmetrical pyramidal habit Rigid tiered branches and fine foliage that emerges steel blue and matures to a deeper blue More compact cultivar with deeper blue colorįlat topped with long bright blue, sharp-tipped needlesĪ perfect cone shape, closely spaced ascending branches and steel blue needle colorĭense, pyramidal form and extremely glaucous blue needles Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Patio Room Mountain Ridge Top Garden - West Lawn and Border Mountain Ridge Top Garden - East Lawn and Lower Drive Border Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO Created by Elizabeth Meyer for " Trees, Shrubs and Conifers" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. ![]() New growth and overall health of this tree can be affected by spider mites Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: This plant has no serious pest issues but can be affected by aphids, scale, budworms, and bagworms. Leaves are stiff, rigid and spine-tipped. Gymnosperm with bluish saber-like leaves. Plant it in drought-tolerant gardens, meadows, naturalized areas, play areas, native gardens or woodland areas. Use blue spruce as a specimen plant or accent. This tree is often utilized as a Christmas tree for its bluish color and stiff leaves for ornaments, but it is being replaced by Fraser fir due to the dangerous leaf tips that have caused injury to toddlers. As the tree ages, its lower branches tend to droop toward the ground. It has a dense crown and is conic to columnar-conic. Allow 12 to 24 feet between individuals when planting.īlue spruce is a medium to large, narrow, pyramidal conifer with horizontal branching to the ground. It has a slow to medium growth rate, and it grows 30 to 60 feet tall, spreading 10 to 20 feet wide. ![]() As this spruce matures, it becomes more drought tolerant and is overall more drought tolerant than other spruces. Young trees should be kept consistently moist and not allowed to dry out. It prefers rich, moist soil in full sunlight. This tree can be grown in average, well-drained soils in full sun, although it will tolerate some shade. It may tolerate the summer weather in the North Carolina mountains. This spruce does best in cooler climates and cannot tolerate heat and humidity. The specific epithet refers to the sharply pointed needles of the tree. The genus name, Picea, is thought to be derived from the Latin word, pix, which means "pitch" and refers to the sticky resin that is found on the tree's bark. It is native to the central Rocky Mountains from southern Montana and eastern Idaho south to New Mexico. Phonetic Spelling PY-see-uh PUN-jenz Descriptionīlue spruce is a needled evergreen tree in the pine family (Pinaceae).
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