Winterberry vs Christmas Blue Spruce - TreeTime.ca

Winterberry vs Christmas Blue Spruce

Picea pungens Christmas Blue

Ilex verticillata

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Christmas Blue Spruce
Winterberry

The Christmas Blue Spruce is a popular choice for Christmas tree farms due to its strong scent and pyramidal shape. This is a cultivar of the Blue Spruce and is a cold-hardy evergreen tree with grey-blue needles.

The Christmas Blue Spruce is highly pollution tolerant, and is native to North America.

Winterberry is a small shrub that produces large quantities of bright red berries that remain on the plant through the fall and into the winter. Adding this shrub to your yard will give it a unique splash of color and attract birds, especially after the leaves drop.

Note: although the foliage is attractive on its own, you need at least one male plant near your female plants or they won't produce berries.

Christmas Blue Spruce Quick Facts

Winterberry Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Spread: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal, wet
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: medium
Suckering: none
Suckering: medium


Foliage: light blue grey
Foliage: yellow-green
Fall colour: bright orange to red
Berries: bright red, stays through winter
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, PE
Other Names: colorado christmas spruce
Other Names: black alder, canada holly, coralberry, fever bush, michigan holly, winterberry holly