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Plant database entry for Blue Spruce (Picea pungens 'Mission Blue') with 33 data details.
Description. 'Mission Blue' is an evergreen landscape shrub/tree with rigid tiered branches and fine foliage that emerges steel blue and matures to a deeper blue. It is hardy and rugged, making an excellent windbreak. Grown for its foliage. VIDEO Created by Elizabeth Meyer for " Trees, Shrubs and Conifers " a plant identification course offered ...
Mission Blue Colorado Spruce is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive blue evergreen foliage which emerges silvery blue in spring. The needles are highly ornamental and remain blue throughout the winter. The rough gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
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- Picea Mariana
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- Picea obovata
They are usually green, but some spruce species have blue shapes, sometimes found in nature. They are especially welcome in ornamental gardening. And some species of fir can boast a bluish color as a characteristic feature. This shade gives the needles an excess layer of wax, always covering it to varying degrees. In some cases, this feature is due...
The needles are tetrahedral or flat, with the keel sitting on an elevation (a fold of the bark) and for some reason turned upside down. The cone hangs, matures in the fall, opens its scales, and pours out its treasures. The bark is brownish-gray, rather smooth, thin, cracks into pieces, and resin oozes out of it.
Picea pungens is really prickly. Its branches are bristled with stiff pointed needles 2-3 cm (1.2-1.6 inch) long. The cone is the same shape as a regular spruce, but slightly smaller, and its scales are lighter, thinner and wavy. It lives in the Western states of the United States – Colorado and Wyoming. In general, this spruce is the most common i...
From the original low forms, we were often sold ‘Glauca Globosa’ – a “Slow” variety of flattened shape. The other variation is less common, although they appear in many ways. Among them: 1. ‘Montgomery’ – with the shape of the crown in the form of a regular hemisphere with a central leader; 2. ‘Gloria’, ‘Jean Iseli’, ‘Saint Mary’, ‘Toume’ – with a ...
Picea engelmannii is similar to its countryman prickly spruce. They are distinguished by pubescent young shoots, softer needles and small cones. Despite its vast natural area, it is cultivated much less frequently and has few decorative forms. It is an industrial wood that is used as planks for furniture or as a useful resin for other products. The...
It is characterized by a dense crown, bluish leaves-needles and a small (3.5-5 cm – 1.4-2 inch) cone with thin wavy rounded scales. It has both bluish-green and blue forms in nature. Its dwarf varieties are widely distributed. ‘Alberta Blue’ is a mutation of the famous ‘Conika’ variety. 1. ‘Arneson’s Blue Variegated’ is the same, but only some bran...
Picea mariana spruce is native to Canada and the Northern United States. A very slender tree with thin hanging branches and an irregular crowd. The needles are dull, dark, with a bluish tinge, the light stomatal stripes are especially wide on the upper (facing the line) side. The cones are very small (up to 3.5 cm – 1.4 inch), dark purple to maturi...
Picea sitchensis is found in Western North America. Long (up to 2.5 cm – 1 inch) very barbed needles are tapered. They silver from stomatal strips, but better visible shiny bright green underside. Grow pretty dwarf varieties – witches broom with tousled needles: ‘Nana’, ‘Papoose’, ‘Renken’, ‘Siberzwerg’, ‘Strypemonde’. Picea sitchensis is found in ...
Picea omorica, which is native to the mountains of Yugoslavia, is dressed in flat needles of the same color – ‘Day and night’, but it is not as spiny and shorter. A narrow dense spruce, beautiful in itself, has many dwarf varieties – pyramids and balls. Interesting, for example, is the shimmering “Treblitzsch”, which depicts both sides of the needl...
Picea obovata, on closer inspection, is similar to the common Picea abies Christmas tree. You will have an inconspicuous pubescence of young shoots and smooth, not jagged scales. These trees are very clearly visible in the distance. Crossing it from west to east, you can see how the wide, dilapidated triangles of the common spruce are gradually rep...
Find Mission Blue Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens 'Mission Blue') in Hamilton Waterdown Ancaster Burlington Dundas Ontario ON at Paterno Nurseries (Blue Colorado Spruce;Colorado Blue Spruce)
Dec 1, 2012 · While there are several green forms and even yellow forms of Colorado spruce, this article will focus just on the "blue" types. For larger spaces, the premier blue cultivars are 'Koster', 'Hoopsii' and 'Moerheim'. Other larger selections you may encounter include 'Copeland', 'Endtz', 'Fat Albert', ‘Ice Blue', 'Mission Blue' and
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Evergreen. Needled. Fruit: Other: female cones with papery or thin woody scales. Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall. Fall. Late fall or early winter. Winter.
