Blue Wonder Spruce Tree
A blue spruce is the classic specimen tree for cooler regions but a tree that can reach 100 feet is not ideal for everyone.
Blue wonder spruce tree. Well baby blue is here to give satisfaction. Blue wonder was developed to maintain that special color as the tree ages. This conifer is native to a number of states adjacent to the canadian border through canada into alaska. All interior needles have a yellow q.
Blue wonder is a cultivar of picea glauca a dwarf spruce that grows slowly and tops out around six feet 2 meters tall. It is known for its color but also the shape which is nearly a perfect cone even without trimming. It delightfully graces small yards by bringing large scale beauty to small scale landscapes. The blue wonder spruce is changing the evergreen game with its eye catching bluish grey foliage that lasts year round.
This spruce variety is very low maintenance and rarely requires pruning due to its natural cone or christmas tree shape. It actually does the classic evergreen spruce one better by having truly beautiful blue gray foliage all year. Its stunning gray blue foliage offers a beautiful contrast to your landscape design as well as a deterrent to deer. Every tree is very blue with needles arranged in a pyramidal compact pattern.
Extremely cold tolerant blue wonder spruce is also a dwarf evergreen that grows to only 6 feet tall. Only the tips of branches are bluish green. Can it survive summer. The trouble with blue needled dwarf albert spruce is that they unpredictably revert back to green.
Blue wonder colorado spruce stands out in a sea of green landscape plants. Growing blue wonder spruce in zone 8 blue wonder spruce are not widely sold where i live in zone 8 along the coast. They are comparable to the best blue clones of the species. It is beautiful as a specimen in a rock garden or bed with other shrubs or planted as part of a collection of dwarf evergreens.
Baby blue spruce trees are an improved strain of the colorado blue spruce tree. Its stunning gray blue foliage offers a shimmery contrast to monotone landscape palettes. Its unique hue stands out in the landscape and complements other plants like no other delivering rich variation that sets your home apart. If you could get that classic silver blue foliage and perfect symmetry in a small tree wouldn t you jump at the chance.
This variety was introduced by kordes nursery of germany. Blue wonder spruce picea glauca blue wonder doesn t get lost in a sea of green landscape plants. The blue wonder dwarf alberta spruce is a perfect cone of rich blue gray needles forming a dense bush that will be 6 feet tall and just 2 feet wide in ten years.