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

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) vs Hoopsii Spruce

Picea pungens Iseli Fastigiata

Picea pungens Hoopsii

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Hoopsii 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.

The Hoopsii Spruce is a cold-hardy variety that has attractive silvery-blue foliage. It is a dense evergreen tree with a distinctive pyramidal form. The needles are highly ornamental and retain their color throughout the winter, which allowed it to win the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.

The Hoopsii Spruce, is a Blue Spruce cultivar and is popular due to being relatively low-maintenance and having a high pollution tolerance.

Blue Spruce Iseli Fastigiate (Columnar) Quick Facts

Hoopsii Spruce Quick Facts

Zone: 2b
Zone: 2a
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: dry, normal
Light: full sun
Light: full sun
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none




Other Names: iseli columnar blue spruce
Other Names: colorado hoopsii spruce