Description

An attractive form of this popular spruce featuring bright lemon yellow emerging foliage; in summer, the undersides and shaded interior foliage turns lime green; a fine color accent tree that creates a striking contrast in the landscape

Landscape Attributes

The Limey 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.

The Limey Norway Spruce is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

The Limey Norway Spruce will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under 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.