Picea mariana 'Doumetii'

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’

Picea mariana 'Blue Tier Drop'

Like a shimmering blue drop of color, this extremely cold hardy black spruce provides a beautiful addition to even the smallest garden.

A combination of sea green and cobalt blue, this very slow growing, less than 3 inches per year upright spruce has a whimsical quality, as if a giant estate tree had been shrunk to miniature scale.

The black spruce family of trees also provides one of the most cold tolerant of any species able to survive temperatures down to -40 fahrenheit.

The next time you walk through your garden remember it only takes a small Picea mariana ‘Blue Tier Drop’ to add a vivid splash of 365 days of color.