Colorado Blue Spruce Trees

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About Colorado Blue Spruce Trees: Colorado Blue Spruce is a pyramidal shaped evergreen with steel blue foliage. It prefers heavier soils, full sun, and clean cultivation. Blue Spruce will reach a height of six feet in eight years on a good site. The bark is brownish gray in color being extremely rough. The branches run horizontally with stiff needles ¾-1 1/8 inches long with a sharp pointed end. The four sided needles curve and when bruised give off an odor.

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Colorado Blue Spruce
Colorado Blue Spruce Tree Facts
Scientific Name:
Picea pugens
Foliage:
Silver Blue Needles
Mature Height:
50-75 Feet
Mature Spread:
25 Feet
Soil:
sandy, clay, loam
Zones:
2-8
Moisture:
moist, or dry

The cylindrical cones are 2 ¼-4 inches long being tan in color. Blue Spruce is probably the most drought tolerant of all spruce. It is widely used in windbreaks or as an ornamental yard tree. Should reach 6 ft. in 7-8 years, starting with a 2 yr. seedling. Stiff, silvery-blue needles are 1" long. Not all plants will be blue. Each bundle will contain a mixture of blue, blue-green and green seedlings. A handsome ornamental specimen or use as a dense, colorful screen or windbreak, space 6 ft. apart. Likes ordinary soil, average moisture, full or half day sun. Does not like wet soil.

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