Hoopsii Blue Spruce
Picea pungens glauca hoopsii unit of measure quantity.
Hoopsii blue spruce. Full sun 6 hours direct sun moisture requirements. Many claim that hoopsii is perhaps the bluest cultivar of the species. However it comes with drawbacks it is notoriously difficult to graft and to form into a shapely plant. Slow growing when young becoming one of the best shaped spruces.
Popular specimen or group planting. Picea pungens hoopsii is a robust upright conical selection of colorado blue spruce with uniformly tiered branching that holds dense intensely blue needles. Tall enough to screen views from second or third story windows. History and origins of the hoopsii blue spruce the colorado spruce picea pungens grows all through the rocky mountains from colorado and montana to new mexico and arizona.
Because it grows at high altitude it is amazingly hardy. Use to separate tall multistory buildings or to create shelterbelts and windbreaks. Design ideasstunning and icy blue this rocky mountain native is the ideal forest evergreen on large properties. Gallon s bloom color family.
Hoopsii blue spruce trees are a member of the colorado blue spruce picea pungens family. Hoopsii colorado blue spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Robust picea pungens hoopsii colorado spruce is a small evergreen tree of elongated pyramidal habit densely clothed with long thick intense powdery blue needles. Hoopsi colorado blue spruce is a pyramidal evergreen with rigid tiered branches that are densely covered with stiff grayish blue needles.