Eastern White Cedar (Arborvitae) vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) - TreeTime.ca

Eastern White Cedar (Arborvitae) vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar)

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Picea pungens Iseli Fastigiata

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Eastern White Cedar (Arborvitae)
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Eastern White Cedar is a slender growing conifer often used as a decorative tree or a hedge. This tree is an effective privacy screen even in winter and a great long term solution to urban crowding or a drab yard.

Iseli Fastigiate Blue Spruce is perfect if you are looking for colour all year. A cultivar of the Blue Spruce, it is also known as the Columnar Colorado Blue Spruce. The Iseli Fastigiate Blue Spruce is one of the more distinctive evergreens. Its foliage is blueish in the spring and blue/green in the winter. Best used as an accent tree, the Blue Spruce has a narrowly upright and columnar form with upwards forking branches.

Eastern White Cedar (Arborvitae) Quick Facts

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Zone: 2b
Zone: 2b
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: full sun
Moisture: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none


Bark: gray to reddish brown, flat connected ridges
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: american arborvitae, eastern arborvitae, northern white cedar
Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce