Norway Spruce

The Norway Spruce (Picea abies) Treebute Kit: Evergreen Strength Through Every Season

The Norway Spruce is a classic evergreen known for its graceful pyramid shape, rich green needles, and steady growth. Valued for its beauty and resilience, it’s year-round greenery and stately form make it a comforting presence.

Each Treebute Kit includes everything needed to plant a memorial tree at home - a hands-on experience many people find grounding during grief. As your Norway Spruce grows - up to two feet per year in its early years - it becomes a living landmark, a place to return to in every season. This complete memorial tree kit is designed to be simple and meaningful at home.

Why You'll Love the Norway Spruce 

• Year-Round Beauty: Evergreen needles provide constant greenery and presence you can see from your window even on the coldest winter day. When everything else has gone dormant, your memorial spruce stands steadfast, a reminder that love endures through all seasons.  
• Remarkably Fast Growing: The Norway Spruce grows faster than almost any other spruce - up to 2-3 feet per year when young. Many people find comfort in watching their memorial tree grow visibly, year after year. Within just a few seasons, you'll have a substantial, established tree. 
• Tough and Forgiving: Norway Spruce is one of the most adaptable evergreens you can plant. It tolerates poor soil, clay, wet conditions, drought, wind, and cold down to -40°F. It outcompetes weeds and grass without special site preparation. Deer leave it alone. This tree wants to thrive - it just needs a place to grow.
• Wildlife Friendly: Provides shelter for birds and adds natural beauty to the landscape.
• The Original Christmas Tree: Every year, Norway gifts a Norway Spruce to London's Trafalgar Square and Washington D.C. as a symbol of gratitude and friendship - a tradition since 1947. The Rockefeller Center tree is almost always a Norway Spruce. If your loved one cherished Christmas traditions, this tree carries that connection forward, becoming a living part of the season year after year.

Each Treebute Kit Includes 

      ✓ Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
      ✓ Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
      ✓ Personalized memorial message

➕ Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

o    Planter (choose your style & size)
o    Premium potting mix (for indoor or patio planting)
o    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 Tree

Even if you’re new to planting, the Norway Spruce is an easygoing evergreen that rewards simple care.

• Light: Full sun is best for strong growth. Tolerates partial shade but grows more slowly.
• Water: Water deeply twice a week for the first few months until established. Once rooted, Norway Spruce is remarkably drought-tolerant and only needs water during extended dry spells.
• Soil: Thrives in rich, well-draining soil; adapts to almost any soil - acidic, clay, sandy, rocky.
• Pruning: Minimal pruning required; remove dead or damaged branches as needed.
• Placement: Give this tree room to grow. Space 12-15 feet from structures and other trees. The shallow, spreading root system benefits from a layer of mulch to retain moisture.

Each moment caring for your tree - adding mulch before winter, watching the new spring growth - becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For people wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, each Treebute Kit has the option to include Treebute® organic soil blend. This scientifically formulated mixture balances the naturally high pH and sodium levels in cremated remains, safely transforming them into a nourishing foundation for your tree. It’s a gentle, healing option if and when the time feels right.

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

Honor Your Loved One in a Way That Lives On

Finding the right way to honor a loved one’s life can be difficult. The Norway Spruce offers a strong, enduring presence - standing tall and evergreen through every season. It becomes a constant reminder of love and connection, rooted deeply in memory and growth.

The act of planting creates meaning. The year-round presence creates comfort. The tree creates a legacy that can last for centuries.