Description:

A distinctive cultivar with a compact, upright habit; dense branching, with attractive, short, soft blue green needles; fast growing, with perfect conical form; makes an exceptional specimen or privacy screen; very unique, hardy and tough

Ornamental Features

Montrose Charm Blue Spruce is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive silvery blue-variegated grayish green foliage. The small needles are highly ornamental and remain grayish green throughout the winter.

Landscape Attributes

Montrose Charm Blue Spruce is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree. When pruning is necessary, it is recommended to only trim back the new growth of the current season, other than to remove any dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Montrose Charm Blue Spruce is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Vertical Accent
• Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Montrose Charm Blue Spruce will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 8 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selection of a native North American species.