Plant tip of the day – Blackhills Spruce as a Living Christmas Tree

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This is a useful midsized blue-colored spruce that works perfectly in the suburban landscape. Use as background foliage for colorful seasonal plantings. A great candidate for naturalistic woodlands needing a reliable conifer that won’t spread out too much. Consider it as a single specimen for semiformal schemes or exploit its columnar form by planting matched pairs in symmetrical landscapes. Dense and rugged enough for small windbreaks at backyard scale or to flesh out larger Midwestern shelterbelts. Picea glauca ‘Densata’