Front Yard Landscape Ideas Using Blue Spruce Trees

Privacy Screens

• One way to landscape with blue spruce in your front yard is to create a privacy screen with the smaller cultivars. The screen formed by rows of these trees is sufficient to prevent anyone from easily viewing your yard and home while not overwhelming the neighborhood. The Missouri Botanical Garden recommends using cultivars, such as Baby Blueyes, for this purpose. This cultivar grows between 15 and 20 feet tall, and its bluish-gray needles keep their attractive color year-round.

Specimen Trees

• All sizes of the Colorado blue spruce work in a front yard as a specimen tree, from the parent species that grows to 60 feet in cultivation to the much smaller types, including The Blues. The Blues is a dwarf tree that grows to 6 feet in height with a weeping form. The Washington State University Clark County Extension advises using this cultivar as the focal point of your front yard, placing it in full sun for best results. Hoopsii is another cultivar appropriate as a specimen tree that displays a bold bluish color.

Group Plantings

• The cone shape and thick branches of the Colorado blue spruce cultivars, such as Fat Albert, make them suitable for group plantings on your front yard. The needles on the Fat Albert cultivar are a shade of steel blue, giving the tree enhanced ornamental value. This cultivar gains about 12 inches of new growth each year but stops growing once it reaches between 10 and 15 feet, making it ideal for mass plantings at the front of your home. Create a grove of these trees in a sunny site or select two or three if space prevents you from planting more.

More Ideas

• Line the driveway or walkway of your front yard with the upright, narrow cultivar of Colorado blue spruce known as Iseli fastigiata. It looks like a blue, narrow pillar, notes the University of Connecticut Plant Database. Accent your garden with the cultivar Colonial Gold. It grows to 15 feet and features a yellowish tint to its grayish-green needles.