I placed my PICEA PUNGENS 'SPRING BLAST' in a spot that will allow it to grow 10' wide before hitting anything. I'm not sure how long it will take to get that wide, right now it's only about 8"x8", but I'm really enjoying the bright white new growth. Definitely ones of my favorite conifers and I want to make sure I won't run out of room.

The 10 year size is 8 x 4 which would be the perfect size. I was just wondering that once it gets to this 10 year size if it's possible to keep it pruned without making it look choppy or do you guys just don't worry about that and if it gets to large take it out? I know 10 years is a long time down the road, just something that came across my mind today.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice... we have this evergreen bush on the side of our house (It's about a 20 year old bush) Nothing special at all. Anyhow, it was very large and needed to be cut back a lot. After trimming it didn't look to bad, but you could see where I had to cut all the long branches back to be even with the shorter branches. Kind of hard to explain, but you could see the end of the 1/4 to 1/2 branches that don't have any green.

Thanks!