Full Grown Size Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Planting and initial care.

Full grown size baby blue eyes spruce.

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. It grows best in areas with warm not hot summers. Plant patent pp5 457 was issued on april 30 1987.

Baby blue eyes is considered a semi dwarf tree and tops out at about 25 feet. The baby blue eyes spruce should be grown in full sun or just a little light shade. Baby blue eyes spruce will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 6 feet. Growing only a few inches per year it develops a broad pyramidal form.

It can be grown from seed and is denser and slower growing than other cultivars. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. Baby blueyes is a semi dwarf cultivar that will grow to 15 20 tall over time. 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. 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. It has a low canopy and is suitable for planting under power lines. In 1972 it was discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated group of grafted picea pungens moerheimii trees.