Colorado Blue Spruce 'Glauca Pendula' (Picea pungens 'Glauca Pendula')

Colorado Blue Spruce 'Glauca Pendula'

Picea pungens ‘Glauca Pendula’ has blue foliage and drooping branches. Grows 3–4 inches per year, eventually spreading to about 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall, with silvery needles like its parent species.

Key Features

• Weeping habit with blue‑silver needles.
• Slow to develop characteristic outline.
• Used as solitary specimen or in mass plantings.

Growing Conditions

Deep, moist but well‑drained, neutral to acidic soil.

Care & Propagation

Graft in winter. Problems: gall insects, aphids, caterpillars, sawfly, spider mites, lesion nematode, scale; wood rots, witches' broom, mistletoe, rust, needle cast.

Landscape Uses

Beds, borders, specimen plant.

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