Doesn't seem to be blue spruce. Not blue.

What make you think that they are all the same age?

My dad who has lived here forty years said they have always been there like that. It ’s a blue spruce lol

I’ll take your word it’s a Picea pungens. They’re not all brilliant blue. It has an interesting habit, and it seems it would be worth exploring the history and sourcing of this tree as much as possible. Do I understand correctly that it’s on your Dads property?

Yeah, of course all blue spruce aren’t blue, for example, the two non-blue blue spruce right next to it. lol

No, it’s a government building that is approximately 50 years old

They don't look like any blue spruce I've ever seen, and it's not just the color, the form is entirely different. I had a fully-grown specimen in my front yard for twelve years, until heavy winds blew it over last year, and it looked nothing like those trees.

There are fastigiate forms of pungens that could look like the larger ones after 50 years.

tj

Lmao!! Those big trees are the most textbook examples of plain jane, spices blue spruce I could post on the internet. This conversation turned so dumb

Lane, try to be patient with us. I was totally accepting they are P. pungens (Who better than you to ID them?), and was merely pointing out to callirhoe123 that not all are powder blue. I think what has been lost in this thread is the unique habit of the smaller, denser, and narrower tree. It might be impossible to determine at this point, but I'd like to know if it was planted as a seedling at same time as the two larger trees. I don't know about "funny," but it is interesting.

Ok, I hear you maackia. I will calm down. I was just hoping that the conversation could be focused on the small tree, which is also a blue spruce, and not on the identification of the trees, especially the larger ones, which are painfully obviously blue spruce.

I believe this specimen to be a unique anomaly because governments don’t usually spend money on special dwarf cultivars, especially at that time 50 years ago, and the spacing is such that the planters of the trees were expecting another full size specimen (spacing is too close btw). And by funny I mean, unique, different and interesting.

So your dad has observed them grow (for forty years) from smaller trees to the sizes they are now? Did they always have this dichotomy of size, or were they once all the same size and the little one grew slower?

Just get a closeup shot of the cones LC, that'll settle it. :-)

Beautiful unique tree, contact Iseli Nursery, very well they could be interested in propagation of it.

I will try to get cones, Bill. If I must prove it, I will

no, they have to be attached to the tree with some sort of size reference when you take the pictures. :^)

eta: just the branches will suffice for the size ref. ;)

Not that it matters to the world at large, but you don’t have to prove anything to me. I learned a lot from VV’s diatribe.

Yeah, I was just being facetious. I don't hardly ever do that. j/k ;-)