Best Blue Spruce Varieties

The Colorado Blue Spruce is an amazing tree! It's blue frosted needles present themselves all year round! Adds great color to the landscape and will bring eyes to your yard!

Blue Spruce USDA Zone Hardiness: 2-7

"Globosa" Blue Spruce: a dwarf shrub only maturing to 4-5' tall by 3-4' wide. Has a "globe" shape to it with little maintenance required.

"Sester Dwarf" Blue Spruce: Dwarf tree maturing to 10' tall by 3-5' wide.

"Fat Albert" Blue Spruce: Wide growing spruce maturing to 40' tall by 20-25' wide.

"Hoopsi" Blue Spruce: Considered the most blue form. Maturing to 30-50' tall by 10-20' wide.

"Blue Totem" Blue Spruce: Extremely upright maturing to 20' tall by 3-5' wide.

"Iseli Fastigiate" bigger growing extremely upright maturing to 40' tall by 10' wide. 

Needlecast Alternatives: The Blue Spruce in some areas are extremely susceptible and lots die from the disease. 

Blue Atlas Cedar: Not pyramidal like most Conifers outward uneven branches adds a really cool unique texture to the landscape. Not as hardy as blue spruce. Hardy in USDA Zones: 5-9. Columnar version does exist to add a more pyramidal shape.

"Paul's Select" Norway Spruce: semi-dwarf tree maturing to 15-20' tall by 10-15' wide. 

Dwarf Blue Spruce's are rarely susceptible to needlecast, due to smaller form and low weak branches. So "Sester Dwarf" and "Globosa" are good varieties to not have to worry about needlecast. 

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