Conifers with the best blue or silver color

monkeytreeboy15

11 years ago

Many conifers are selected for the steel-blue color, but which ones are the best in your opinion?

Here are a couple that come to mind for me!

Abies fraseri 'Blue Bonnet'

Picea engelmannii 'Jasper'

Picea glauca 'Blue Teardrop'

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Abies lasiocarpa 'Alpine Beauty'

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Abies lasiocarpa 'Prickly Pete'

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Please share your favorite blue conifers, also.

-Sam

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Comments (24)

sprucebud
11 years ago
Picea pungens 'The Blues'

Picea pungens 'Montgomery'

Richard
Sara Malone Zone 9b
11 years ago
That 'Blue Bonnet' is gorgeous! So is 'The Blues' and 'Montgomery'. What great color. The others ain't too shabby, either.

I love P. pungens 'Lucretia'...we'll see if she grows as slowly as advertised! Some of the Abies concolors are very blue, as well.
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bostonbob
11 years ago
I am sorry - I don't know the names - but these are globular blue spruce. I bought them for the gorgeous blue color! Fast growers!

First planted!

8 yrs later:

A gorgeous cousin:
firefightergardener
11 years ago
Pretty cool plants Bostonbob, nice and compact.

I can share some, as Spring slowly gives way to Summer here.

Abies koreana 'Kohout's Icebreaker'

Abies procera 'Hupp's Blue'. A noble selected for this strong silvery color.

Abies concolor 'Glenmore' - A nice bright blue.

Closeup.

Cedrus libani var. atlantica 'Sapphire Nymph' - Forming a great medium sized dwarf.

Abies procera 'Pesek'

-Will
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Excellent stuff. A nice, fine and feathery texture on Abies concolor 'Glenmore', huh?

Abies koreana 'Blauer Eskimo' (found as a witch's broom on 'Blauer Pfiff')
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-Sam
mirek_l
11 years ago
P. pungens 'Mecky'
mirek_l
11 years ago
P. pung. JMC3
Fiddlegal08
11 years ago
Picea pungens 'Ruby Teardrops'
Fiddlegal08
11 years ago
Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe'
blue_yew
11 years ago
Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'

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severnside
11 years ago
Appropriately named but still needs to colour up fully.

Abies koreana 'Blue And Silver' or 'Blue 'n' Silver'
coniferjoy
11 years ago
A witches' broom out of a witches' broom...
Juniperus squamata 'Tropical Blue'
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sluice
11 years ago
Picea pungens 'Edith'

Picea pungens 'MPH Mamut Torony' (and a P. pungens 'C. Blue' in the background)
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Wow, some great, bright blues here!

'Ruby Teardrops' is awesome!

Edwin, could you tell us more about the 'Tropical Blue' what witch's broom was it derived from?

Severnside, that Korean Fir is very fitting for this photo gallery. It is surprising to see one of your conifers in the ground instead of a pot!

Nate, that second P. pungens is definitely one of the bluest conifers I've ever seen.

-Sam
maple_grove_gw
11 years ago
Abies koreana 'Horstmann's Silberlocke'

Abies procera 'Glauca'

Picea pungens 'Copeland'

And wouldn't be complete without a Cedrus libani var. atlantica 'Glauca'
coniferjoy
11 years ago
Sam, the Juniperus squamata 'Tropical Blue' is a witches' broom out of a 'Blue Star' which is a witches' broom out of a 'Meyeri'...
gardener365
11 years ago
A lot of great plants here.

Mirek, that JMC3 is a beauty! Glad to see it propagated for you!!

Dax
mirek_l
11 years ago
P. pung. 'Szpaczek'
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Abies veitchii 'Rumburk' (love this one)

-Sam
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Abies veitchii 'Rumburk' (love this one)

-Sam
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Abies veitchii 'Rumburk' (love this one)

-Sam
severnside
11 years ago
You really do love that 'Rumburk' MTB, lol 3 posts

Yeah it does seem all my collection is in containers but I will be planting more out this fall.
monkeytreeboy15
Original Author
11 years ago
Lol. My internet connection was acting strangely, saying that my message hadn't posted when, in fact, it had... twice.

Well, good luck transplanting to Terra "fir"ma. :0)

-Sam
clement_2006
11 years ago

Picea obovata "Glauca"

Picea obovata "Glauca"

Clement