Meyers Spruce vs Globe Blue Spruce - TreeTime.ca

Meyers Spruce vs Globe Blue Spruce

Picea meyeri

Picea pungens Glauca Globosa

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(new stock expected: fall of 2025)

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Meyers Spruce
Globe Blue Spruce

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.

The Globe Blue Spruce is a uniquely shaped evergreen shrub species, with a rounded and compact form. It has silvery-blue needles that can last all winter, which add to its ornamental value.

The Globe Blue Spruce is a cultivar of the Blue Spruce and is especially popular in urban environments for its eye-catching shape, cold-hardiness and high pollution tolerance.

Meyers Spruce Quick Facts

Globe Blue Spruce Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Spread: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 2.1 m (7 ft)
Light: 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


Foliage: silver-blue
Bark: grey-brown with irregular flaking
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: chinese blue spruce
Other Names: colorado globe spruce