Colorado Blue Spruce

A slow-growing spruce that'll take 10 years to hit 75cm high, it makes a wonderful mound of bobbly blue growth with tightly packed branches heading off in all directions. The needles colour-up best in full sun, and the effect is sensational in spring when the silver-blue new growth shoots out. Contrast with a foreground planting of heathers, or with vertical conifers. Other good pungens cultivars include the North American 'Montgomery' and Glauca Group. It has been given the Award of Garden Merit by the RHS.