Dwarf Alberta spruce
Picea glauca 'Conica'
- Size
- 2.5 m tall, 1.2 m across
- Light
- Full sun, part sun
- Hardy to
- -35 degrees
- Flowers
- May
- Green all winter
- In a pot
- Evergreen
- Keeps a clipped shape
Safety
- Note: a known allergen for some people
Reviewed and approved for Poland by a qualified gardener with thirty years of practice, 22 September 2026.
What it needs, what it becomes
- Type
- Shrubs
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Size when mature
- 2.5 m tall, 1.2 m across
- Light
- Full sun, part sun
- Moisture
- Medium
- Soil
- loam, sand
- Soil pH
- 5 to 7
- Hardy to
- -35 degrees
- Flowers
- May
- For pollinators
- Little
- Water
- Medium water
- Upkeep
- Some
- Growth
- Slow
- In Europe
- Introduced
- Spreading risk
- None known
- If eaten
- People: Not toxic · Dogs: Not toxic · Cats: Not toxic
- Worth knowing
- A known allergen for some people
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Lists it is on
- Evergreen plants24 plantsWhat holds a garden together from November to March, when the rest of it is underground.
- Plants safe with children and pets39 plantsNothing toxic and nothing thorny: the list a garden with a toddler or a dog starts from.
- Plants for pots8 plantsFor a terrace or a balcony, where the soil ends at the wall of the pot and water goes twice as fast.
Plants that go with it
Old Gold juniperJuniperus × pfitzeriana 'Old Gold'
Blue Arrow juniperJuniperus scopulorum 'Blue Arrow'
Globe blue sprucePicea pungens 'Glauca Globosa'
Dwarf mountain pinePinus mugo 'Pumilio'
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus 'Rotundifolia'
Rhododendron 'Cunningham's White'Rhododendron 'Cunningham's White'