Full Grown Bakeri Blue Spruce

Its branches are horizontal and grow right down to the ground.

Full grown bakeri blue spruce. Baby blue is a mid sized spruce that reaches heights of between 15 and 20 feet and usually spans anywhere from six to ten feet across. The growth rate is about 10 12 per year. Picea pungens bakeri is a large broadly conical selection of colorado spruce with long dark silvery blue needles. 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.

Sku 6466 this very popular conifer has a handsome pyramidal form with rigid tiered branches densely covered with stiff gray blue needles. It has longer needles and a super intense dark blue color exactly what is needed for maximum impact. 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 grafted selection of colorado spruce with a good blue color.

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. Very strong landscape specimen for the yard parks or in mass planting. It will probably become talled than the baby blue eyes but not very wide.

Bakeri is a semi dwarf cultivar of the colorado blue spruce. It typically grows 30 60 tall in cultivation but may reach 100 or more where it grows naturally. Grafted selection to maintain consistency. I really get a feeling that the bakeri will remain rather narrow as is gets taller.

If left to grow naturally it takes on the typical pyramid shape seen in many conifers. Its foliage contrary to its name is often gray green or green in color though it can also be bright blue or silver blue. It can tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions once established but avoid wet sites and shaded areas. Baby blue spruce appearance.

I ve got a 7 baby blue eyes and its way wider than the 5 bakeri are. Hardy to 40 f maximum elevation. Its slender habit and upward angled branches make it a good choice for smaller yards. Baker s blue colorado spruce is the perfect small version of the extremely popular blue spruce.

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. I think baby blue eyes is probably a slower grower and maybe more size limited in the end than these others. The colorado blue spruce is a needled evergreen in the pinaceae family. Seems to hold its color well even in the coldest climates.