Columnar Blue Spruce
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Spacing: 6-10'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Want a Blue Spruce, but don’t think you have the room? Columnar Blue Spruce may be the answer. This tall, skinny specimen fits easily into spaces too narrow for most evergreen trees. This fastigiate-form Colorado Spruce has a formal look suitable for neat, manicured landscapes, and though its tightly branched, stand-at-attention habit makes it seem as if it’s been meticulously pruned, your shears will never leave the shed. The only maintenance you may perform on this cool blue conifer is a yearly stringing of lights when you turn it into a living Christmas tree!
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Spacing: 6-10'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
Colorado Spruce inhabits the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the U.S. It’s a nice but ho-hum tree in its usual wild form: a tall, snow-shedding pyramid, carrying fresh green needles all year-round. When it was discovered that powder-blue specimens could be had, however, the tree rocketed to the top of many wish lists. It became the go-to accent plant in Northern gardens across the country (it struggles in the Southeast). This columnar variety first appeared in Canada around 1987 and made it to the U.S. a few years later.
The Details
A Blue Spruce for those tight spaces! This is one upright, columnar evergreen! Columnar Blue Spruce showcases steel blue foliage, the new growth displays an even more intense blue color. You just can't pass this one up!
How to Grow
Lots of people have planted Blue Spruce trees too close to the house, and the next owner of the house has cursed them for it. Don’t get cursed out—plant this slim variety instead. This tree isn’t difficult to grow. Full sun is a prerequisite, as is well-drained soil. It should never need pruning. (Thank goodness! It’s a prickly fella.) Blue Spruces are slow-growing trees, so you can understand how much a good-sized specimen can add to the value of a home… unless it’ssmushed up against the house!
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Size Guide
Scale
Size A
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Size A Trees:
3-4' tall. Upright and more narrow/slender form grown in our #5 or larger sized tree container. Full and well sheared with a single leader.
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