Bakeri Blue Spruce
Seems to hold its color well even in the coldest climates.
Bakeri blue spruce. Hardy to 40 f maximum elevation. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Its slender habit and upward angled branches make it a good choice for smaller yards. A grafted selection of colorado spruce with a good blue color.
Very strong landscape specimen for the yard parks or in mass planting. Baker s blue colorado spruce is the perfect small version of the extremely popular blue spruce. This is a relatively low maintenance tree. Picea pungens bakeri is a large broadly conical selection of colorado spruce with long dark silvery blue needles.
Bakeri is a slow grower that is ideal for an accent tree or where space is limited. Needles are longer and darker blue than other cultivars within this species. Silvery blue needles are larger and have more consistent color than other blue spruce cultivars. After 10 years of growth a mature specimen will measure 7 5 feet 2 6 m tall and 4 5 feet 1 5 m wide an annual growth rate of.
It has longer needles and a super intense dark blue color exactly what is needed for maximum impact. It can tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions once established but avoid wet sites and shaded areas. Instead of becoming a large tree it stays compact reach no more than 10 feet tall in 10 years and staying about 4 feet wide at the base. A moderate growing symmetrical pyramidal evergreen tree with good silvery blue needles.
Grafted selection to maintain consistency.