Meyer Spruce is a conifer tree that grows full to the ground with with a pyramidal habit and attractive deep silvery-blue to blue-green needles that are soft to the touch. The elongated female cones emerge a bright green before maturing to brown. Prefers full sun and rich, moist well-drained acidic soils.  Drought tolerant once established.  Meyer is pest and disease resistant, and highly tolerant of urban pollution.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Low maintenance plant. Susceptible to needle cast, rust, and cytospora canker.  Watch for aphids, scale, bagworms and budworms.  Spider mites infestations can severally damage new growth.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Specimen or mass plantings, Borders,  Naturalized Areas, Woodland Garden, Foundation Planting, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Ninebark, Weigela, Smoke Tree

IMAGES: F. D. Richards, Picea meyeri (Western China) 2019 photo, (2) Nick Number, Picea meyeri at Chicago Botanic Garden, CC BY 4.0, (3) Petr Filippov, Picea meyeri Brno2, CC BY-SA 3.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.