Description

An attractive form of this popular spruce with glossy yellow-green needles in summer; intense yellow gold in winter and early spring; a fine color accent tree when set off against the other greenery in your yard

Landscape Attributes

Aurea Magnifica Norway Spruce is a dense evergreen tree with a strong central leader and a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Aurea Magnifica Norway Spruce is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Aurea Magnifica Norway Spruce will grow to be about 35 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.