Full Grown Size Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet.

Full grown size baby blue eyes spruce.

Planting and initial care. If you have larger planters and boxes the baby blue eyes spruce is perfect for them making a great specimen that will always look good. Slower growing than the native colorado spruce this semi dwarf selection is useful for smaller landscapes and confined spaces. Dense eye catching silvery blue green foliage holds its color well.

But what caught its discoverer s eye was its tendency to naturally achieve the iconic pyramidal shape for which blue spruces are valued. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987. Picea pungens baby blue eyes.

It grows best in areas with warm not hot summers. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees. It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more. Plant it in almost any soil that is well drained.

Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form. Depending on climate of growing location baby blue spruce grows to a full sized tree approximately 35 45 feet tall but is somewhat more slender than common colorado blue spruce.