Christmas Blue spruce vs Hoopsii Spruce - TreeTime.ca

Christmas Blue spruce vs Hoopsii Spruce

Picea pungens Christmas Blue

Picea pungens Hoopsii

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Christmas Blue spruce
Hoopsii Spruce

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.

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.

Christmas Blue spruce Quick Facts

Hoopsii Spruce Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 12 m (40 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 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: colorado christmas spruce
Other Names: colorado hoopsii spruce