Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Mature Height

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Baby blue eyes spruce mature height.

A more compact cultivar with deeper blue color. 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. Just 6 feet tall after 10 years it is perfect for a smaller garden or for foundation planting around your house. Baker blue spruce picea pungens bakeri.

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. The baby blue eyes spruce fits that perfectly and it doesn t become a giant tree. Dig a hole that is slightly larger than the roots. Dwarf blue spruce with brilliant blue color.

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. It typically grows 30 60 tall in cultivation but may reach 100 or more where it grows naturally. Specimen plant or planted in a group.

It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. Average landscape size slow growing 15 to 30 ft. It has blue gray needles. Tall and 15 ft.

Plant in sun to part shade where the plant will have room to grow. 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. Garden style contemporary rustic. Planting tips instructions.

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 originated as a seedling selected in 1972 by verl holden nurseries silverton oregon usa. Baby blue eyes blue spruce picea pungens baby blue eyes.