{"product_id":"spruce-5-gal-colorado-88025","title":"Spruce, 5 gal, Colorado","description":"The Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens) is a popular, rugged evergreen tree well-known for its classic pyramidal shape, striking colour, and extreme cold hardiness, making it an ideal specimen or windbreak tree for Canadian landscapes. \r\nFoliage: Needles are stiff, sharp, and four-sided, ranging in colour from a silvery-blue (in cultivars like 'Glauca' or 'Baby Blue') to a darker green. The colour is retained throughout the winter, providing year-round interest.\r\nSize \u0026amp; Form: A large, dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive pyramidal form. It typically grows 15 to 25 metres (50–80 feet) tall and spreads 5 to 10 metres wide in cultivation.\r\nHardiness: It is extremely cold-hardy, thriving in Canadian Hardiness Zone 2 to 7, making it a reliable choice for the harsh prairie climate.\r\nTolerances: Highly adaptable, it is drought-tolerant once established and can handle a wide variety of soil conditions and urban pollution. Deer typically leave it alone. \r\nLight: Requires full sun (at least 6 hours of direct sunlight) for the best colour and growth.\r\nWater: Water deeply during the first growing season to establish roots. Once established, it is drought-tolerant but will not tolerate any standing water.\r\nMaintenance: A low-maintenance tree. Pruning is usually only needed to shape the new growth of the current season in late winter or early spring.","brand":"Bylands Nurseries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49707103191280,"sku":"74858","price":58.48,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/floralacres.ca\/products\/spruce-5-gal-colorado-88025","provider":"Floral Acres Greenhouse \u0026 Garden Centre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}