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Spruce up your yard! With cold-weather hardiness, evergreen beauty and a range of sizes and shapes, the many types of spruce ...
You might not have the largest yard or plot, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow the mighty spruce. These 5 types of spruce ...
Colorado Blue Spruce trees have long been landscape favorites because of their stately shape and unusual color. Picea pungens has a symmetrical form that can grow from 30 to 60 feet tall with a 10 ...
Blue Spruce is found in Colorado and in southwest range of southwest Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. It is found at elevations that can range up to 12,000 feet in elevation. In ...
Colorado spruce (Picea pungens), the species with the popular blue-needled cultivars, struggles in Maryland growing conditions. As such, it is at risk for several problems that cause dieback and ...
Colorado blue spruce doesn't generally thrive in our region, but it will grow. I have three Colorado blue spruce trees in my yard. All I do is water them about twice a week.
Striking, globe-shaped Dwarf Colorado Blue Spruce is a slow-growing, low-maintenance shrub. Selected for its shape and color, this cultivar grows more wide than tall. Powder blue needles add year ...
Then-Colorado U.S. Sen. Gordon Allott offered up a Colorado blue spruce from the Arkansas River Valley. That tree was supposed to come from Cottonwood Pass west of Buena Vista, which is about 25 ...
One of the dominant tree species in our Colorado Rocky Mountain subalpine forests is the spruce. A spruce is an evergreen tree or conifer belonging to genus Picea and there are about 35 species ...
A popular landscape tree in the ’60s and ’70s and still in great favor, the Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens “Glauca”) is happier in a cooler location/elevation, ...
Your Colorado blue spruce could be suffering from cytospora canker. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 70°F. Friday, July 11th 2025 eNewspaper. Home Page. Subscriber Services.
It's been a busy Monday morning at Millennium Park with the arrival of the 45-foot Colorado blue spruce from Darien, which was chosen to be the city's official Christmas tree this year.