Colorado Blue Spruce Seedlings – Picea pungens

Live Potted Evergreen Trees | Blue-Green Foliage

Add beautiful evergreen color to your landscape with Colorado Blue Spruce seedlings! Known for their distinctive silver-blue to blue-green needles and classic pyramidal growth habit, these popular conifers make attractive specimen trees, future Christmas trees, and excellent windbreak plantings.

Native to Colorado and higher elevations of the southwestern United States, Colorado Blue Spruce is a cold-hardy evergreen that provides year-round greenery and valuable shelter for birds and wildlife.

Plant Details

• Common name: Colorado Blue Spruce

• Botanical name: Picea pungens

• Plant type: Live evergreen conifer

• Shipping condition: Grown in pots and shipped rooted in soil

• Seedling size: Please see the size clarification below

• USDA Hardiness Zones: 2–7; Zone 8 on the West Coast

Features

• Distinctive silver-blue to blue-green needles

• Classic columnar to pyramidal growth habit

• Slow to medium growth rate, approximately 12–24 inches per year according to the grower

• Excellent evergreen specimen tree

• Suitable for windbreaks when planted in rows

• Provides food and shelter for a variety of birds

• Can be grown as a future Christmas tree

Mature Size

When grown in the landscape, Colorado Blue Spruce can reach approximately:

• Height: 50–75 feet

• Width: 10–20 feet

Allow sufficient room for mature growth when choosing a planting location.

Growing Information

• Light: Half-day sun to full sun

• Water: Water regularly during the first year while establishing. Once established, water during periods of severe drought.

• Soil: Adaptable to acidic, loamy, moist, rich, sandy, well-drained, and clay soils

• Climate: Tolerates cold and wind

• Additional tolerance: Can tolerate short periods of flooding and drought

Shipping & Plant Size Information

These seedlings are grown in pots and shipped rooted in soil. The growing pots may be removed before shipment.

Please note: The listing heading describes seedlings as 5–10 inches tall, while the detailed description states 4–8 inches. Please confirm the actual shipping height before publishing so buyers receive an accurate size description.

Wholesale quantities may be available. Please message us for pricing on larger orders.

Shipping Information

• Free shipping to most locations.

• Larger boxes and shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, APO addresses, US Territories, or remote areas may require additional shipping charges or may not be available.

• If temperatures are above 89°F or below 20°F, orders will be held until conditions improve.

• Every plant is inspected for quality before shipment.

Plants may experience some stress during transit. Please unpack your seedlings promptly and allow them time to acclimate.

If your plants arrive damaged, contact us promptly with photographs of the package and plants so we can help.

Please message us before ordering if you have any questions.

Grow your own Colorado Blue Spruce and enjoy its distinctive blue-green evergreen foliage for years to come!