Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Mature Height

It has blue gray needles.

Baby blue eyes spruce mature height.

Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide. Just 6 feet tall after 10 years it is perfect for a smaller garden or for foundation planting around your house. It typically grows 30 60 tall in cultivation but may reach 100 or more where it grows naturally. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color.

It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. After 10 years of growth a mature plant will measure 5 5 feet 1 8 m tall and 3 feet 1 m wide an annual growth rate of 6 to 8 inches 15 20 cm. The baby blue eyes spruce fits that perfectly and it doesn t become a giant tree. Dwarf blue spruce with brilliant blue color.

Dig a hole that is slightly larger than the roots. This cultivar originated as a seedling selected in 1972 by verl holden nurseries silverton oregon usa. Planting tips instructions. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Noteworthy characteristics picea pungens commonly called colorado spruce also blue spruce is a medium to large narrow pyramidal conifer with horizontal branching to the ground. Tall and 15 ft. Plant in sun to part shade where the plant will have room to grow. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued.

This cultivar of colorado spruce is considerably slower growing than the native species attaining a mature height of 30 and a width of 15. Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Specimen plant or planted in a group. 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.

Dramatic foliage color easy care north american native selection waterwise. This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high. Average landscape size slow growing 15 to 30 ft.