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Hi All!

I am attempting to buy from 3 to 5 ft Colorado Blue Spruce trees. If
you can recommend a place where I can buy trees of such size that would
be highly appreciated.

Overall plan is to plant those in Austin, Texas. Has anyone else tried
this? Any luck?

Thank you for your help!

It's native to cool mountain climates, but has drought resistance -

- Here's some information you might find interesting :

"Colorado blue spruce is an introduced plant to the Minnesota landscape and
this tree is very popular. Unfortunately for this species, popularity leads
to stress related problems. Colorado blue spruce's native range is in the
Rocky Mountains between 6,000 to 10,000 feet - a cool climate.
While this species is said to be somewhat drought tolerant,
Minnesota's drier, warmer continental climate places this species under a
fair amount of stress"



Since the tree "considers" Minnesota a drier, WARMER climate, God knows what
it will "think about" the climate in Austin,Texas.

It probably has a problem competing with the Minnesota palm trees....??

and from the Kansas extension service --

The most common reason for spruce decline is environmental stress. Simply
put, Colorado blue spruce is not at home on the plains. Spruces do not like
the hot dry summer conditions combined with the drying effects of the
southwest winds. It is dry in the mountains but it is cool and dry, not hot
and dry.
The second problem spruce has in Kansas City is our extremely dry fall
and winter conditions coupled again with the drying winds. The mountains
are good, but there is plenty of moisture and much less fluctuating
temperatures.
Lastly, spruce suffers in our climate because of our heavy clay soils.
During wet periods such as the one we are experiencing now the soils drain
very slowly damaging the root system. Rocky mountain soils have low clay
content and drain at a faster rate.

fwiw...