Papoose Sitka Spruce

This Dwarf Spruce is so cute!

We'll understand if you want to shower your new Papoose Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis 'Papoose') with tender loving care! From its diminutive size to its puffy texture and kitten-soft new growth - You'll love it!

The towering cousins can grow up to 100 feet, but these sweet little dwarf grafted Birds Nest coniferous trees grow just 4-6 feet in height and width! Extremely slow-growing, the overall profile is a globe-shape. Every chubby little branch ends in a sweet ball of blue-green needles. In the landscape, it will eventually grow into a rounded mound after ten years.

Hardy throughout USDA planting zones 6 to 8, these dwarf evergreens are highly adaptable and won't need a lot of care. Very deer-resistant, the new growth forms adorable blossom-like puffballs at the tips of the branches in the spring.

Planting and Application:

These are fanciful and unique trees that never become larger than mid-sized shrubs! The color stands out against dark home siding and is the perfect foundation planting for a new home so these plants have the time to reach their full size in time, along with the rest of your new landscaping.

One will shine on a raised berm in your front lawn, or a few dotted along the back of a garden border will eventually become a bright backdrop or a year-round privacy hedge while staying low enough to limit ongoing maintenance.

Papoose is like a living natural Bonsai tree, so have some fun and make it your own! The color glows in the Moon Garden, and in large tubs or planters, a Papoose will become an effective focal point!

Several Papoose Sitka Spruce planted together would be extremely effective in an Asian-style Zen Garden to represent the concept of "family". Or, use a single specimen as your focal point in a personal Meditation Garden. Mix with white flowering perennials and shrubs, variegated foliage plants, and other glaucous blue-green plants! They will become the pretty accents among a mixed shrub border - especially interspersed among other evergreen shrubs!

• Dwarf Globe Spruce
• Frosty Blue-Green Needles & Soft New Growth
• Wonderful Very Dense Texture
• Unique Fluffy Rounded New Growth
• Showy Evergreen Hedges, Foundation Plantings, Containers & Specimens

#ProPlantTips for Care:

These Spruces do best in very well-drained soil conditions in full sun. Preferring evenly moist soil but Spruce do not tolerate standing water or soggy areas. While not particular about soil pH, adding Nature Hills Root Booster and a 3-4 inch layer of mulch around this plant's root system will benefit them greatly for life!

• Full Sun & Some Part Shade
• Moderate to Low Moisture Needs
• Any Well-Drained Soil Location
• Avoid Pruning - Only Prune Dead/Broken Branches
• Incredibly Cold-Hardy & Drought-Tolerant

Get ready to enjoy the long-lived low-maintenance curiosity of the dwarf Papoose Sitka Spruce! So versatile and unique, you'll be happy to be the first on the block with one! Now at NatureHills.com!