Buy Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini'

Also Known As

Mrs. Cesarini Dwarf Colorado Spruce

Plant type

shrub, conifer

size

H: 3'
W: 3'

planting zones

2a-8b

30-36 inch | $251

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Fewer than 20 at Bloom River Gardens

#7, 18-24" | $254.99

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Fewer than 20 at Conifer Kingdom

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Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini' plant details

Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini' is a slow-growing evergreen conifer shrub with blue and green foliage. In spring flowers emerge Flowers are not showy, but nurture a healthy ecosystem as wildlife habitat. followed by brown fruit. Features fuzzy texture. Grows well with sun and regular - occasional water. Does well in average and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something verticillium wilt resistant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini'

Plant type: conifer shrub
Plant family: pinaceae
Foliage: evergreen blue and green
Mature size: 3 FT wide, 3 FT tall
Uses: border plant, container plant, dwarf, globose, rock garden, year round interest

GROWING CONDITIONS for Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini'

USDA Zones: 2a - 8b
Sun exposure: sun
Watering frequency: regular - occasional
Resistant to: deer and rabbit, verticillium wilt
Soil needs: average and well-drained

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Nursery contributed plant descriptions

A blue-green flat globose form. New growth is distinctly more blue and lighter in color. Regularly pushes a second flush of growth in summer, prolonging the foliage distinction between old and new growth.

By: Conifer Kingdom

This flat topped, globose growing dwarf Colorado spruce is becoming very desirable. Needles are blue-green and regularly puff out with a second flush in mid-summer. 'Mrs. Cesarini' is a great substitute over the tradional blue globose spruce.

By: Garden World

A selection of Colorado blue spruce with blue-green needles and a silver highlights. Grows 3-5 inches a year into a irregular mound reaching 2-3 feet high x 4-5 feet wide after many years. Better year-round color than the often used, and overused, Birdsnest spruce.

By: Bloom River Gardens

Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini' - Dwarf Colorado Spruce a green, mounding cultivar with dense branching and many buds produced per branch giving the form a rounded clustered look. Nice contrasting colors at bud break. Great selection from Joe Cesarini, Long Island, New York. Prefers full sun in well-drained soil.

By: Kigi Nursery

A spectacular flat topped greenish globe, this was found by Joe Cesarini as a broom in 1981 possibly on Long Island, it has been a bit of a mystery at one time considered Picea abies 'Mrs. Cesarini' then Picea glauca 'Mrs. Cesarini' and also Picea jesoensis 'Mrs. Cesarini', now it resides in pungens. Obviously, a clone that does not cone freely or they would have sorted this mess out long ago.