Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce) vs Christmas Blue spruce - TreeTime.ca

Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce) vs Christmas Blue spruce

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Christmas Blue spruce
Blue Spruce (Colorado 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.

Blue Spruce, also known as Colorado Spruce, is our best selling tree! People are attracted to the distinctive blue-green color of this hardy evergreen. But Blue Spruce really stands out because it is tough, long lived, and adapted to a wide range of growing conditions. Blue Spruce trees are ideally suited for use in shelterbelts, privacy screens, or as accent trees.

Please note: our Blue Spruce are grown from seed and the needles vary in color from green to blue.

Christmas Blue spruce Quick Facts

Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce) Quick Facts

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Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Height: 27 m (90 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: long
Suckering: none
Suckering: none


Foliage: light blue grey
Foliage: blueish green needles
Cones: large light brown cones (up to 10 cm long), mature in August and open on the tree, then fall to the ground over the following year
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


In row spacing: 3 - 4 m (10 - 12 ft)
Between row spacing: 5 m (16 ft)
Other Names: colorado christmas spruce
Other Names: colorado blue spruce, colorado spruce