Meyers Spruce vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) - TreeTime.ca

Meyers Spruce vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar)

Picea meyeri

Picea pungens Iseli Fastigiata

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Meyers Spruce
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Meyer's Spruce is a popular accent tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. This tree resembles Blue Spruce with its flaking bark and bluish-green needles. Meyer's Spruce can tolerate very dry conditions. This species is deer resistant.

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.

Meyers Spruce Quick Facts

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2b
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Spread: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Moisture: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Light: full sun
Light: full sun
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Bark: grey-brown with irregular flaking
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none




Other Names: chinese blue spruce
Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce