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

Skybound Cedar vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar)

Picea pungens Iseli Fastigiata

Thuja occidentalis Skybound

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Skybound Cedar

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.

The Skybound Cedar is a newer variety that is usually hardier than the Brandon Cedar and richer in color. The dark green, scale-like foliage maintain their needles and color throughout the winter.

Cedars enjoy average to moist soil conditions and should not be allowed to dry out. It's small size, spread and columnar shape make the Skybound Cedar an excellent accent tree or border hedge that can be expected to live up to 50 years under ideal conditions.

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Skybound Cedar Quick Facts

Zone: 2b
Zone: 2a
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Height: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: medium
Suckering: none
Suckering: none




Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce
Other Names: skybound arborvitae