Plant Database
Baby Blue Colorado Spruce
Picea pungens ‘Baby Blue’
The Baby Blue Colorado Spruce is a compact superstar, offering the legendary steel-blue color of the Colorado Blue Spruce in a perfectly proportioned package for residential landscapes. This slow-growing selection forms a dense, symmetrical pyramid with stiff, horizontal branches covered in exceptionally bright, silvery-blue needles. It provides stunning year-round color, requires minimal pruning, and serves as an ideal focal point, hedge, or windbreak for gardens of any size.
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A compact, slow-growing selection of the Colorado Blue Spruce with outstanding, consistent silvery-blue color.
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Forms a dense, symmetrical, pyramidal shape that rarely needs pruning.
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Extremely cold hardy, drought tolerant, and adaptable to a wide range of soils once established.
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Matures at a manageable 10-15 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide.
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Provides vivid year-round color and is deer resistant.
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Perfect as a specimen, in groupings for a screen, or as a foundation anchor.