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Picea pungens
'Stanleys Dwarf'
Stanleys Dwarf, Blue Spruce
Origin: Discovered at Stanley and Sons Nursey in Boring, Oregon by Larry Stanley in 1970.
Mike's
Opinion
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Larry Stanley who has more than 30 years of experience in the nursery industry and founded Stanley and Sons Nursery with his father in 1976 discovered Stanleys Dwarf. It was originally planted as a Christmas tree on 114 cm centers with 3000 other seedlings, when the other trees were cut down or dug, this plant was only 20 cm high and 30 cm across. Strangely enough, Stanley does not list this; maybe it should be Stanley’s mystery, Quoted directly from Larry Stanley “Stanley's Dwarf is still not a very good cultivar we do not propagate it”.
Michael Pascoe, NDP., ODH., CLT., MSc. (Plant Conservation)
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| Family |
| Pinaceae |
| Genus |
| Picea |
| Species |
| pungens |
| Cultivar |
| 'Stanleys Dwarf' |
| Category |
| Woody |
| Type |
| Shrub (evergreen) |
| Pronunciation |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 2 - 10 |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| 0a-6b |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H7 - H2 |
| Temperature (°C) |
| (-45) - 4 |
| Temperature (°F) |
| (-43) - 40 |
| Height |
| 60 cm |
| Spread |
| 75 cm |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| General Description |
| Dense tree with a pyramidal form and small yellow flowers. |
| Landscape |
| Used as a specimen or in groups. |
| Cultivation |
| Full sun in acid to neutral soil a ph range of 4.0-6.5. Well drained, moist soil and sheltered from cold winds. |
| Shape |
| Upright pyramidal. |
| Growth |
| Slow |
| ID Characteristic |
| Rigid, sharply pointed needles, green-blue to grey in colour, orange-brown young shoots that become grey-brown with age and pale brown cones with papery scales. |
| Pests |
| Spruce gall aphids, spruce needle miner. |
| Habitat |
| Horticultural origin. |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Young bark is orange-brown but becomes scaly and grey-brown as it matures. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description |
| Sometimes spherical but often conical with elongated narrow tips that are blunt on the end. Non-resinous buds with a caramel colour and loosely bunched scales. |
| Leaf Description |
| Rigid needles that are sharply pointed and blue-green to grey. Spreading and whorled on the branchlets but denser on upper surfaces. |
| Flower Description |
| Small insignificant yellow flowers. |
| Fruit Description |
| Cones are up to 6-10 cm long, green when young maturing to pale brown with papery scales. |
| Colour Description |
| Orange-brown young bark maturing to gray-brown, blue-green to gray needles, yellow flower and green young cones that mature to pale brown. |
| Texture Description |
| Coarse texture. |
| Propagation |
| Grafting is performed in the winter from January to February and overwintered in unheated structures until spring where it is then planted outside. Seedling rootstock Picea pungens is used with apical-wedge or side veneer graft. Selected forms can be propagated by semi ripe cuttings of side shoots, although these can take up to 2 years to strike. |
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