Description
Latin: Picea pungens
Zones: 2-7
Other common names: Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, silver spruce
Mature Height/spread: 80-100 ft. high/ 10-20 ft spread. Slow to medium growth rate (12-24″ per year)
Soil / Climate: prefers organic, moist soil, very adaptable, somewhat drought tolerant for a spruce, full sun
Notes: as ornamental trees, it is among the most widely planted ornamental spruces in gardens and parks. It is also grown for the Christmas tree industry. Blue spruce has a green to blue-green color
Wildlife: The Colorado Blue Spruce provides food and shelter for siskins, nuthatches, and crossbills. Deer will often eat the foliage.
Cold Stream Farm supplies Blue Spruce trees which are grown as bare root seedlings and transplants and sold both wholesale and retail with no minimum order.
Additional information on Picea pungens can be found on the link: USDA / NRCS PLANTS Database
Steph –
These far exceeded my expectations! I purchased 100 of the 18″-24″, thinking I would need extra because they’d be barely 18″, scraggly and would have a bunch that wouldn’t make it. WRONG! These were really like small trees, healthy with trunks, not twigs! We planted a week ago, right before we started getting some rain and they have already started to fill out and look amazing! Not one bad one in the entire order, which was very securely packed. We could not be happier and will definitely order from here again.