Planted 'Globosa Glauca' in fall 2006.
Planted 'Montgomery' (I think) in spring 2007.
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| 8/26/2010 I think this is 'Montgomery' |
Its wonderful cool color and dense shape gives structure and contrast to the chaotic look of the garden in summer.
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| 6/29/2011 |
I also planted a dwarf blue spruce at the top of the driveway, just below the paperbark maple. Here it is in 2010. It tames the riot of color in autumn, cooling the scene.
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| 10/29/2010 - originally I thought this would keep its rounded small shape |
'Globosa Glauca' is starting to form an interesting asymmetry that I really like.
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| 5/25/2012 - not staying rounded at all |
This is 'Montgomery' in Meadow's Edge. This one does stay small and globe shaped.
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| 6/1/2012 |
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| 6/18/13 |
In some lights the spruce at the top of the driveway is positively blue.
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| 7/10/13 |
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11/2/13 after I added the low stone wall
(Which didn't quite reach all the way under the spruce) |
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| 6/18/14 - the one in back staying small and tidy! |
The one at the top of the stone wall is peaked and off center, and an interesting shape.
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| 6/18/14 |
It's a dramatic shape and dramatic color next to the paperbark maple, but I worry that it will want to get much larger. It doesn't seem to be a tidy rounded dwarf the way the globe blue spruce in back is.
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| 11/23/14 |
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| 9/14/15 |
And here it is the spruce in back in fall 2015. The blue pyramid picked up the blue hue of the globe blue spruce and all summer it was nice complement. The bluestone steppers we added in 2015 echoed the cool hue.
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| 11/17/15 |
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| 11/17/15 |
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| 10/7/16 - the blue spruce is getting too big for the space! |
