Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Genus name is reportedly derived from the latin word pix meaning pitch in reference to the sticky resin typically found in spruce bark.

Baby blue eyes spruce.

Montgomery blue spruce picea pungens montgomery grows 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. Picea pungens baby blue eyes is a very dense pyramidal slow growing selection of colorado spruce with sky blue foliage. Specific epithet means sharp pointed in reference to the needles. The baby blue eyes spruce features the same wonderful color as the colorado with a range of greenish to deep blue colored needles.

Spruce baby blue eyes picea pungens baby blue eyes pyramidal semi dwarf evergreen with sky blue needles. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Its dense form makes its strong blue color stand out very nicely. Broad and conical when mature.

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. Thomsen blue spruce picea pungens thomson. 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. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Baby blue eyes spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined 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. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. The baby blue eyes spruce offers all the benefits of the colorado without the massive size.

This species is quite drought tolerant. 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. Another cultivar with silver blue color. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

It is reported to be not as cold hardy as most plants in this species reported to suffer winter die back in usda zone 3. 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 is a relatively low maintenance tree.

Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time.