Discovered in the 1850s, this black spruce continues to be a welcome addition to the modern garden as well.
With very thin needles and a youthful irregular growth habit, ‘Doumetii’ has an airy almost feather-like quality to its branches. That airy appearance is reinforced by the sea green color of the needles. And when ‘Doumetii’ flowers, the female cones that are produced are a grape purple color and the male pollen cones are rich crimson color.
Eventually growing to a 10-foot tree in ten years, ‘Doumetii’ will grow between 6-12 inches per year.
Its great versatility in the garden is what surely made ‘Doumetii’ popular in the 1800s, and that same quality still makes a perfect plant to use in foreground of the forest green of Picea abies ‘Pendula’ or as a backdrop for perennial flowers like ‘Black-Eyed Susan’
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