Growing Baker’s Blue Colorado Spruce Trees No trimming is needed to keep that terrific, dense pyramid form looking neat and even, and really, there is nothing to do but stand back and admire it. The branches are more tightly packed around the stem, so the tree is dense and beautiful. The needles are longer, and a dark, intense blue, making a more dramatic and powerful color accent. Not only does it make a beautiful specimen tree for a smaller garden, but it is significantly more attractive than the natural tree. We have exactly what you are looking for.īaker’s Blue Colorado Spruce is a small form of a widely-planted and hardy spruce tree, that forms the same upright, pyramidal tree, but that grows densely and small, so that in ten years it will be less than 10 feet tall, and about 4 feet wide. If you don’t have a lot of room, then it makes perfect sense to choose carefully, and look for a smaller form of these trees, with all the beauty – indeed, often with more – and less of the height and bulk. It has now reached 60 feet tall, with serious consequences. We have all seen the house dwarfed and crowded by the ‘cute little tree’ planted 20 or 30 years earlier right outside the front door. The problem is that many of these trees in their natural type become very large – over 100 feet tall in many cases. In colder areas conifer evergreens are the most reliable choices, and in most other areas too they offer dramatic forms and foliage colors that nothing else can deliver so well. Plant Hardinessīeautiful specimens are essential in the garden, or it all too easily becomes a boring jumble of green leaves and round bushes. It rarely suffers from any pests or diseases, and it needs no trimming to keep its great shape, although it can also be trimmed into a perfect geometrical cone, if required. It grows easily in almost any soil, from sand to clay, and including alkaline soils, just so long as they are well-drained, without standing water. Grow it in full sun for the best color, although it will tolerate a little light shade too.
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