A slim, steely-blue spruce with a clean columnar silhouette that brings crisp evergreen color year-round
FEATURES:
- Columnar, narrow habit with a tight, upright spruce silhouette
- Steely blue to blue-green needles for cool-toned evergreen color
- Dense branching that creates a full, tidy profile
- Classic Colorado spruce needle texture with bold evergreen character
- Strong central structure for a clean, architectural look
- Excellent winter interest with blue needles and a crisp conifer form
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
Blue foliage is the landscape equivalent of a crisp white shirt, it makes everything around it look sharper. Pair this with deep green evergreens for calm contrast, or add one gold-toned plant nearby for a high-impact, designer color combination.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Mature Height: 15-20' tall
- Mature Width: 3-5' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 3-5' apart
Blue Totem Colorado Blue Spruce
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Picea pungens 'Blue Totem'
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A slim, steely-blue spruce with a clean columnar silhouette that brings crisp evergreen color year-round
FEATURES:
- Columnar, narrow habit with a tight, upright spruce silhouette
- Steely blue to blue-green needles for cool-toned evergreen color
- Dense branching that creates a full, tidy profile
- Classic Colorado spruce needle texture with bold evergreen character
- Strong central structure for a clean, architectural look
- Excellent winter interest with blue needles and a crisp conifer form
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
Blue foliage is the landscape equivalent of a crisp white shirt, it makes everything around it look sharper. Pair this with deep green evergreens for calm contrast, or add one gold-toned plant nearby for a high-impact, designer color combination.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 3-7
- Mature Height: 15-20' tall
- Mature Width: 3-5' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Spacing: 3-5' apart
Why plant Blue Totem Colorado Blue Spruce?
Want a Blue Spruce, but don’t think you have the room? Blue Totem Colorado Spruce may be the answer. This tall, skinny evergreen fits easily into narrow spaces adding a vibrant silvery-blue highlighting garden beds all year round. Your pruning shears will never have to leave the shed, as it maintains its stately, manicured look all on its own! Plant a few for a gorgeous accent wall, or elegant entranceway. During the holidays, turn it into a living Christmas tree we can all sing about! Colorado Spruce inhabits the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the U.S. It’s a nice but ho-hum tree in its usual wild form: a tall, snow-shedding pyramid, carrying fresh green needles all year-round. When it was discovered that powder-blue specimens could be had, however, the tree rocketed to the top of many wish lists. It became the go-to accent plant in Northern gardens across the country (it struggles in the Southeast). This columnar variety first appeared in Canada around 1987 and made it to the U.S. a few years later.
How to use Blue Totem Colorado Blue Spruce in the landscape?
A Blue Spruce for those tight spaces! This is one upright, columnar evergreen! Blue Totem Colorado Spruce showcases steel blue foliage, the new growth displays an even more intense blue color. You just can't pass this one up!
How To Plant Blue Totem Colorado Blue Spruce
Lots of people have planted Blue Spruce trees too close to the house, and the next owner of the house has cursed them for it. Don’t get cursed out—plant this slim variety instead. This tree isn’t difficult to grow. Full sun is a prerequisite, as is well-drained soil. It should never need pruning. (Thank goodness! It’s a prickly fella.) Blue Spruces are slow-growing trees, so you can understand how much a good-sized specimen can add to the value of a home… unless it’ssmushed up against the house!
Frequently Asked Questions
This spruce does not produce showy blooms. It may form cones as it matures, but it’s grown for blue evergreen needles, dense branching, and its narrow columnar form.
Blue Totem is selected for steely blue to blue-green foliage. Exact intensity can vary with sun and season, but full sun helps maintain the strongest blue tones.
Pruning is typically minimal. Remove dead or damaged branches as needed, and avoid heavy shearing so the natural columnar silhouette and dense branching remain healthy and attractive.
