Blue Spruce
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Spacing: 25-35'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Bring the sparkle of steely blue foliage to your landscape year-round with a Colorado Blue Spruce. This much-loved pyramidal evergreen tree is the perfect focal point for the formal areas of your landscape that need some bling. In winter, you can decorate this living Christmas tree with lights for even more drama. Songbirds like robins and cardinals will appreciate the cover your Blue Spruce tree provides and may choose to nest in the security of its thickly set branches. You’ll appreciate how little maintenance this easygoing Rocky Mountain native requires!
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Spacing: 25-35'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
Blue Spruce, or Colorado Blue Spruce, as they like to call it West of the Mississippi, is a Rocky Mountain native that has found a home in all climates cool enough for its growth (it struggles in the Deep South). Wild plants usually have needles of a misty sea-green color, but select trees are distinctly powder blue. The brightest, bluest ones are called “shiners” in the nursery business, and these are what we offer at Bower & Branch™.
The Details
One of the best ways to add some blue to your garden! This adaptable Blue Spruce maintains an overall conical shape and can be used as a specimen, in screens, or in groupings. Branches and needles are stiff and rigid, but don't let the prickliness fool you - this Spruce would simply LOVE to be with you!
How to Grow
You wouldn’t think a drama queen like this one would be so easy to please, but it is in fact quite easygoing. Blue Spruce thrives in sunshine and freely draining soil. It is not a fast growing tree, but given these two things, it will increase in size and grandeur every year. Once established, too little water is better than too much—that low spot in the yard is not the place for it. And don’t plant it right next to the house! Though it looks cute and compact now, it may get over 40 feet tall and 20 feet wide.
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Size Guide
Scale
Size A
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Size A Trees:
3-4" tall. Sheared well, single leader. Grown in our #7 to #10 size evergreen tree container. Very full - true blue shiner.
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