Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Mature Height

Planting tips instructions.

Baby blue eyes spruce mature height.

Grows 12 to 20 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide. Tall and 15 ft. 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. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes.

Dramatic foliage color easy care north american native selection waterwise. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri. It typically grows 30 60 tall in cultivation but may reach 100 or more where it grows naturally. Dwarf blue spruce with brilliant blue color.

Just 6 feet tall after 10 years it is perfect for a smaller garden or for foundation planting around your house. 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. Average landscape size slow growing 15 to 30 ft. This is a semi dwaf cultivar that grows 15 to 20 feet high.

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. A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. Garden style contemporary rustic. This cultivar of colorado spruce is considerably slower growing than the native species attaining a mature height of 30 and a width of 15.

Dig a hole that is slightly larger than the roots. It has blue gray needles. Plant in sun to part shade where the plant will have room to grow. Instead it stays compact and full with branches right to the ground.

The baby blue eyes spruce fits that perfectly and it doesn t become a giant tree. But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars.