Bakeri Blue Spruce Monrovia

Silvery blue needles are larger and have more consistent color than other blue spruce cultivars.

Bakeri blue spruce monrovia. Picea pungens bakeri is a large broadly conical selection of colorado spruce with long dark silvery blue needles. Stiff bristly four angled green to blue green to silver blue needles to 1 5 long point outward from the branches in all directions. A striking focal point when combined with complementing deep yellows pinks and greens. Use as an evergreen windbreak or tall screen or as a specimen plant in large landscapes.

Bakeri is a slow grower that is ideal for an accent tree or where space is limited. This is a relatively low maintenance tree. 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 is native to the central rocky mountains from southern montana and eastern idaho south to new mexico where it is typically found growing in moist locations from 6000 to 11000 feet in elevation.

With no two plants alike the strongly weeping branches and irregularly spreading and drooping top create a unique bright silver blue specimen. A moderate growing symmetrical pyramidal evergreen tree with good silvery blue needles. 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. Grafted selection to maintain consistency.

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Outstanding evergreen tree generally considered the bluest form. Check other stores closed. 8 75 gallon significant bacheri blue spruce feature tree lw02136 item 197382 model nursery. This very popular conifer has a handsome pyramidal form with rigid tiered branches densely covered with stiff gray blue needles.

New growth is especially bright blue. Bakeri blue spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Needles are longer and darker blue than other cultivars within this species.