Colorado Blue Spruce
What: A popular evergreen accent tree with large stout branches and long, very pointy silvery-blue needles. Picea pungens ‘var. glauca’ offers more reliable color than the species and features a distinctive pyramidal growth habit.
Best use: Perfect as a striking landscape accent, vertical focal point, or in windbreaks and shelterbelts. Its distinctive blue-green color and pyramidal shape make it an excellent specimen tree for creating visual interest.
Plant Details
| Height | 50 feet |
| Spread | 20 feet |
| Hardiness Zone | 2 |
| Sunlight | Full Sun |
| Watering | Drought-tolerant; adaptable to dry and moist (no standing water) |
| Growth Rate | Slow |
| Maintenance | Low; deer resistant |
| Uses | Accent, Vertical Accent, Windbreaks and Shelterbelts |
| Foliage | Bluish-green evergreen needles that emerge blue in spring |
| Bark | Rough gray bark |
