Believe it or not, it is really just one tree :-) This cultivar - a dwarf Alberta spruce - is overly prone to reversion back to the original species. A Google image search will produce scores of similar examples, some quite fantastical in appearance.

Thank you! That is so cool. I never knew such a thing could happen. I guess I had better remove the interloper!

yes you should remove it ...

picea glauca... is what i call a telephone pole tree ... YUGE potential .... lol .... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=picea+glauca+forest&t=ffnt&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

of course.. that is in tree time ... counted in decades ...

soooo .. the species part will eventually outgrow the dwarf form ... and make a pretty stupid looking tree .. ikf its out in the acres.. who cares.. fun to watch .. but on a small suburban lot ... try to remove it.. and if it shows back up. try again ...

or.. since they are rather cheap bigbix type plants.. just go buy a new one ...

if this were mine.. i would kill or remove the grass at least a foot out from the edge of the canopy.. and mulch it ... if for no other reason.. to keep the dude with the weed whip away from it ....

ken

Thank you for the additional advice. The tree is not very close to the house but I really do not want a large tree there. We will just cut the offending branch out. Mulching around it sounds like a good idea in theory , but there are too many trees to take that approach in that area. I will be very wary of the “ dude”....