Picea glauca Alberta Globe Japanese Gardens

Picea glauca Alberta Globe Japanese GardensThis miniature form of Alberta Spruce looks just like a Chocolate Kiss, except green. The plant is a squat conical plant that grows 1 2 inch a year so you know it will be compact and tight. Found about 1968, then introduced by Grootendorst of Holland. Our plant shown is only 12" tall and 16" wide and it is 8 years old. Great for the rock garden, containers or trough gardens.

Hardy to 0 deg F

container gardens

Growing wider than tall

The flowers open in late April and are multi-layered petals of peach-pink-red-cream-and a hint of yellow

Originally found by Gunter Eschrich in northern Germany- the Munsterland region to be exact - in 1986

Much valued as the only dissected cultivar that has an upright form

dense full plant

3' tall x 3' wide in 10 years

A sport of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana that is bright gold and grows very slowly to 4 ft

The late summer

and has super frilly edges

The lime-green to gold foliage has a nice lemon scent