General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Fruit: Other: female cones with papery or thin woody scales
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Late fall or early winter
Winter
Flowers: Other: soft male cones
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Can handle transplanting
Other info: Seeds are inside cones
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Spruce
  • Blue Spruce
  • Colorado Blue Spruce
  • Silver Spruce

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-12
Picea pungens 'Stanley’s Gold' 24W19 4yo Blue N5 (Stanley 1978)
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-12
Picea pungens 'Stanley’s Gold' 24W19 4yo Blue N5 (Stanley 1978)
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-12
Picea pungens 'Stanley's Gold' 24W19 4yo Blue N5 (Stanley 1978) C
Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on May 12, 2024 9:21 AM concerning plant:
    Picea pungens 'Stanley's Gold' 24W19 4yo Blue N5 (Stanley 1978) Colorado Blue Spruce, 4x3ft. @ 10 years, golden green, Hardy to Zone 3, Garden N5 (Stanley) PLTD 2020.

    American Conifer Society: Picea pungens 'Stanley Gold' is a slow-growing, upright, pyramidal selection of Colorado spruce with golden foliage in winter. Spring growth is green which presents a very interesting color contrast early in the growing season. Many consider the plant's golden color to be superior to Picea pungens 'Aurea,' a much older selection.

    After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 4.5 to 6 feet (1.5 - 2 m) tall and two-thirds as wide, an annual growth rate of 5 to 7 inches (10 - 12.5 cm).

    This cultivar originated as a seedling selected in 1978 from a 5000-plant flat of Blue seedlings, by Larry Stanley, Stanley & Sons Nursery, Boring, Oregon, USA.

    Stanley & Sons Nursery: A dwarf golden form of Colorado Spruce. Found at Stanley & Sons Nursery in 1978. Leaves are a light yellow with no burn. Makes a dwarf conical tree. Found in a seedling bed of 5000 blue green plants.

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