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Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

The Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Treebute creates a lasting living memorial with dense silvery blue-gray evergreen foliage, a natural pyramidal form, and year-round presence in an outdoor yard or memorial garden. Slow-growing, drought tolerant, and deer resistant. Outdoor planting.

$199.95
$199.95
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Please Note: This product can not be shipped to AK, AZ, HI, OR
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Baby Blue Eyes Spruce Treebute

Steady Blue Beauty for Lasting Remembrance

The Baby Blue Eyes Spruce is a compact evergreen with striking silvery blue needles and a naturally pyramidal shape. Its calm color and steady presence make it a meaningful way to honor love and remembrance through every season.

Each Treebute is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home, a hands-on ritual that many people find grounding and healing.

The act of planting gives your hands something purposeful to do and creates meaning, forming a living connection that continues to grow.


What Happens After You Order

Step 1

Your tree is prepared and shipped with care from our nursery.

Step 2

Your kit arrives ready to plant, with your healthy tree, care guide, and personalized memorial message.

Step 3

Follow the simple steps to plant your living memorial, whenever the time feels right.

Step 4

Care for your tree, and watch it grow over the years.


Why You’ll Love the Baby Blue Eyes Spruce

  • Symbol of Strength: Spruce trees are often associated with endurance, protection, and resilience, making this tree a meaningful living tribute.
  • Naturally Symmetrical Form: Its dense branching and close-set needles develop into a full, structured form on their own.
  • Permanent, Growing Landmark: Slow, steady growth means this tree remains manageable in the landscape for many years. Over time, it grows into a substantial, long-lived feature in a yard or garden.


A Living Memorial That Grows With You

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. A Treebute tree offers something different, a living expression of love that grows stronger each year. It gives your hands something to do and your heart something to hold.

The act of planting creates meaning. The growth creates hope. The tree creates a place to remember.

What Comes With Your Treebute Kit
  • Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
  • Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
  • Personalized memorial message

Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

  • Planter (choose your style & size)
  • Premium potting mix (for patio planting)
  • Cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if/when you're ready)

Many customers plant without ashes - and that's just as meaningful.

Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Nurturing Your Memorial Tribute

Even if you’re new to planting, Baby Blue Eyes Spruce is a hardy evergreen that rewards simple, steady care.

  • Light: Choose a sunny outdoor location, with full sun preferred.
  • Water: Water regularly while the tree is getting established, then avoid soggy soil.
  • Soil: Plant in moist, well-drained soil.
  • Space: Give it space, sunlight, and steady care, and let the ritual become part of remembrance.

That's it: This tree is remarkably resilient and adapts to most soil types. It practically thrives on benign neglect once its roots take hold.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For those wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture creates a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - transforming ashes into living growth.

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes - this is simply another way to honor someone you love.

Plant Specifications:

Botanical Name:
Picea pungens 'Baby Blue Eyes'
Growth Rate Value:
Slow
Mature Height Value:
15-30 ft.
Mature Width Value:
15 ft.
Sunlight Value:
Full-Part Sun
Does Not Ship To:
AK, AZ, HI, OR
Growing Zones:
2-8 outdoors

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What if they're not ready to plant right away?

The kit includes simple instructions to care for your tree until planting time. Many customers plant on a significant date, a birthday, an anniversary, or another day that feels right.

Can I send this as a gift directly to the recipient's home?

Yes. Enter their address at checkout and we will ship directly to them with your personalized message included.

Is this a good gift for someone who is grieving?

Yes. A memorial tree is a lasting and meaningful alternative to cut flowers. The Baby Blue Eyes Spruce is a permanent, outdoor tree that grows and stays present year after year. Many people find the act of planting itself to be a grounding and purposeful experience during a difficult time.

Do I need cremation ashes to use this kit?

No. Treebute Kits work as living memorials without ashes. The cremation-safe soil blend is an optional add-on for those who choose to incorporate ashes. Your tree is meaningful either way.

How large does the Baby Blue Eyes Spruce get?

This is a semi-dwarf cultivar that typically reaches 15 to 20 feet at maturity, with slow, steady growth of roughly 6 to 8 inches per year. It is much more manageable than a standard Colorado Blue Spruce and suits most residential yards well.

Is it easy to care for? We are not experienced gardeners.

Yes. The Baby Blue Eyes Spruce is resilient and low-maintenance once established. Plant it in a sunny spot with well-drained soil, water regularly in the first growing season, and it takes care of itself from there. No pruning is needed to maintain its natural pyramidal shape. It is also drought tolerant and deer resistant.

Can I plant ashes without any special soil treatment?

We strongly advise against it and doing so will void the Warranty. Planting cremation ashes directly with a tree, without proper treatment, can stress or even kill the plant. The high sodium and pH levels create conditions that are hostile to root development. If you want your memorial tree to thrive for years to come, using the Treebute Organic Soil Blend is essential when incorporating ashes.

What makes Treebute different from other memorial tree options?

Treebute is designed to be planted at home, in your own yard, patio, or indoor space. Unlike distant memorial forests where a tree is planted somewhere you may never visit, a Treebute grows right where you can see it. It becomes a gentle, living presence in your daily life.

Every kit includes a healthy tree of your choice, clear planting and care instructions, and the option to add scientifically formulated soil for safe ash incorporation. And our team understands that every memorial is deeply personal.

How is this different from having a tree planted in a forest?

Forest donation programs plant something far away and send a card. A Treebute Kit delivers a real, living plant to your door, or to your recipient's door, so it can be planted and tended at home and seen every day. It becomes part of daily life, not a distant certificate.