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Planting blue spruce saplings full#

Planting blue spruce saplings full#

Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay High Organic Matter Loam (Silt) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Available Space To Plant: 12-24 feet NC Region: Mountains USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Tree Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Needled Evergreen Habit/Form: Columnar Conical Pyramidal Growth Rate: Slow Maintenance: Low Texture: Medium Appendage: Prickles.Attributes: Genus: Picea Species: pungens Family: Pinaceae Life Cycle: Woody Recommended Propagation Strategy: Root Cutting Seed Country Or Region Of Origin: USA Fire Risk Rating: high flammability Dimensions: Height: 30 ft.Tags: #evergreen #drought tolerant #specimen #blue needles #native tree #winter interest #tsc #rabbit resistant #air pollution tolerant #cpp #needled evergreen #deer resistant #fantz #evergreen tree #Christmas trees #tsc-cg 'Baby Blue Eyes', 'Bakeri', 'Compacta', 'Fat Albert', 'Foxtail', 'Glauca', 'Glauca Globosa', 'Glauca Pendula', 'Hoopsii', 'Mission Blue', 'Moerheimii', 'Montgomery', 'Otto von Bismark', 'Pendula', 'Roundabout', 'Thompsenii' Glaucous silver-blue foliage, symmetrical pyramidal habit Rigid tiered branches and fine foliage that emerges steel blue and matures to a deeper blue More compact cultivar with deeper blue colorįlat topped with long bright blue, sharp-tipped needlesĪ perfect cone shape, closely spaced ascending branches and steel blue needle colorĭense, pyramidal form and extremely glaucous blue needles Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Patio Room Mountain Ridge Top Garden - West Lawn and Border Mountain Ridge Top Garden - East Lawn and Lower Drive Border Cultivars / Varieties:

VIDEO Created by Elizabeth Meyer for " Trees, Shrubs and Conifers" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens.

Leaves are stiff, rigid, and spine-tipped.

Gymnosperm with bluish saber-like leaves.

New growth and overall health of this tree can be affected by spider mites. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: This plant has no serious pest issues but can be affected by aphids, scale, budworms, and bagworms. It is often planted outside afterward as a specimen plant. It is often utilized as a Christmas tree for its bluish color and stiff leaves for ornaments, but being replaced by Fraser fir due to dangerous pungent leaf tips that caused injury to toddlers. It is more drought-tolerant than other spruces. This plant has a slow to medium growth rate. As the plant matures, it becomes more drought tolerant. Young plants should be kept consistently moist and not allowed to dry out. This plant prefers rich, moist soil in full sunlight. It can be grown in average, well-drained soils in full sun, although it will tolerate some shade. It does best in cooler climates, cannot tolerate heat and humidity. It is native to the central Rocky Mountains from southern Montana and eastern Idaho south to New Mexico. It is an evergreen gymnosperm tree that grows 30-60' and has a dense crown and is conic to columnar-conic. Medium to large, narrow, pyramidal conifer with horizontal branching to the ground. Phonetic Spelling PY-see-uh PUN-jenz Description