Bakeri Blue Spruce Tree
This is a relatively low maintenance tree.
Bakeri blue spruce tree. Bakeri is a slow grower that is ideal for an accent tree or where space is limited. The growth rate is about 10 12 per year. Grafted selection to maintain consistency. A grafted selection of colorado spruce with a good blue color.
Silvery blue needles are larger and have more consistent color than other blue spruce cultivars. Ellery baker who was. Baker blue colorado spruce is a selected form of the of colorado spruce picea pungens. Very strong landscape specimen for the yard parks or in mass planting.
Bakeri blue spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. 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. The variety we call bakeri was found among a batch of seedling trees back near the end of the 1920s somewhere in massachusetts. Growing on high mountains means this tree is super tough and cold resistant which is why it is so popular in colder states.
Its slender habit and upward angled branches make it a good choice for smaller yards. It can tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions once established but avoid wet sites and shaded areas. A moderate growing symmetrical pyramidal evergreen tree with good silvery blue needles.