What can I plant instead of blue spruce?
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- What can I plant instead of blue spruce?
- What grows best under blue spruce?
- How do you save a dying blue spruce?
- Are spruce trees native to Michigan?
- How do I make my blue spruce more blue?
- How do you fertilize a blue spruce tree?
- What kind of hardiness does Colorado blue spruce have?
- Where do blue spruces live in the United States?
- What to do with a blue spruce tree?
- How does a dwarf blue spruce tree look like?
What can I plant instead of blue spruce?
Consider a concolor fir (Abies concolor), like Blue Cloak, if you like the look of blue spruce, but want to avoid its disease problems. Select a pine when looking for an evergreen more tolerant of adverse soil, weather exposure and urban conditions than spruce and firs.
What grows best under blue spruce?
Notable acid-loving shrubs and perennials include: rhododendrons, blueberries, bergenias, hostas, lungwort, lily-of-the-valley, and any juniper or other conifer, Hydrangea will thrive just outside the drip line, and the acidity will actually turn their flowers bluer.
How do you save a dying blue spruce?
The following will help you manage rust disease:
- Prune away dead branches, twigs, and infected areas of the tree.
- Remove fallen foliage and destroy it (burn it). ...
- Apply a fungicide to the tree after removing signs of the infection.
- Deep water the tree once per week to help it recover from the stress.
Are spruce trees native to Michigan?
Michigan has two native spruces, Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and White Spruce (P. glauca). Norway Spruce (P. abies) is now naturalized into the state.
How do I make my blue spruce more blue?
Apply a chelated iron-rich fertilizer if a blue spruce develops a yellow or yellow-green color. A shortage of iron will cause the needles of a blue spruce to lose their blue coloration. The fertilizer will replace the depleted iron and help the needles regain their blue color.
How do you fertilize a blue spruce tree?
I suggest feeding spruce trees with a slow-release shrub & tree type fertilizer or a natural, organic plant food. After planting, lightly sprinkle a slow-release shrub & tree type fertilizer beneath and just beyond the canopy of your spruce tree. Keep the granules well away from the plant's trunk area.
What kind of hardiness does Colorado blue spruce have?
The tree is hardy in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 through 7. Plant Colorado blue spruce in a hole that is as deep as the root ball and two or three times as wide. When you set the tree in the hole, the top of the root ball should be even with the surrounding soil. You can check this by placing a yardstick or flat tool handle across the hole.
Where do blue spruces live in the United States?
The cone is the same shape as a regular spruce, but slightly smaller, and its scales are lighter, thinner and wavy. It lives in the Western states of the United States – Colorado and Wyoming. In general, this spruce is the most common in urban landscaping.
What to do with a blue spruce tree?
Stake the new leader into an upright position. Some insecticides remove the wax coating on the needles. Since the wax is what gives the tree its blue color, you want to avoid this if at all possible. Test insecticides on a small, inconspicuous part of the tree before spraying the entire tree. Did you find this helpful? Share it with your friends!
How does a dwarf blue spruce tree look like?
Dwarf species are attractive in home landscapes where they look great in shrub borders, as backdrops for borders and as specimen trees. Short, sharp needles that are square in shape and very stiff and sharp attach to the tree singly rather than in bunches, like pine needles.
