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)
Plant Height: Only tall as staked
Plant Spread: 10 ft. in 10 years
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
  • Weeping White Spruce
  • Black Hills Spruce
  • White Spruce
  • Canadian Spruce
  • Spruce

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-02-19
"Picea glauca 'Pendula' , 2017, Weeping [White Spruce], PYE-see-u
Location: Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2019-10-15
This specimen is VERY tall, and skinny.   It was planted 25 years
Location: Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2019-10-15
This lowest limb has grown parallel to the ground, then shot upwa

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens

Date: 2012-12-07

Date: 2012-12-07
Location: Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2019-10-15
The top of a very tall narrow tree
Location: Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2019-10-15
Fairly typical spruce needles on the tree.  Everything else about
Location: Orem, Utah
Date: 2012-04-26
At Sunriver Gardens
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-02-19
"Picea glauca 'Pendula' , 2017, Weeping [White Spruce], PYE-see-u
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Specimen growing on the grounds
Location: Michigan State University Hidden Lake Garden, Tipton, MI
Date: 2012-01-26

Date: 2012-12-07

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2012-04-26

Date: 2012-04-26
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Specimen growing on the grounds
Location: Ray Wiegand's Nursery, Macomb, MI
Date: 2015-07-05
Specimen growing on the grounds
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