Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Sander's Blue Dwarf Spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

Ornamental Qualities

Sander's Blue Dwarf Spruce is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive bluish-green evergreen foliage which emerges steel blue in spring. The needles are highly ornamental and remain bluish-green throughout the winter.

Planting and Growing

Sander's Blue Dwarf Spruce will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is quite intolerant of urban pollution | therefore inner city or urban streetside plantings are best avoided | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selection of a native North American species.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 20'Hx10'W

Zone 4a

Likes average to moist soil