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

Red Spruce vs Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar)

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Red Spruce

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.

Red Spruce is a long-lived, shade tolerant conifer that grows naturally in eastern Ontario and the Maritime provinces. Hardiest in the eastern regions of Canada, this tree tolerates many soil types, moisture levels, and is low maintenance.

Attractive year-round foliage makes Red Spruce a nice ornamental tree for urban and rural landscapes. If you are considering creating a shelterbelt, privacy screen, or hedge in eastern Canada, this tree is an excellent option.

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Red Spruce Quick Facts

Zone: 2b
Zone: 3a
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Height: 25 m (82 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none


Bark: reddish-brown to black
Cones: red-brown with stiff scales
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, PE
Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce
Other Names: eastern spruce, he balsam, he-balsam, yellow spruce