How to Use blue spruce in a Sentence

blue spruce

noun
  • The farm offers blue spruces and at least six different firs.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Next, fill in gaps with snips of blue spruce or juniper branches for color.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The low branches on my beautiful blue spruce look to be dying.
    — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The bluish-green needles of blue spruces are sure to stand out in holiday designs.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2025
  • When small, these trees have a dense form and blue-gray color reminiscent of a blue spruce.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2025
  • If the weather’s fair, grab a seat outside under the shade of a 100-year-old blue spruce.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The land where the blue spruce stood now holds a senior center and veterans facility.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • In her front yard, two blue spruce trees that Burvee had planted 41 years ago were uprooted and lay on their sides.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The house, concealed by huge blue spruces, was across the street from a center for mental health and a mile from downtown businesses.
    — Rachel Wharton, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Decades earlier Boy Scouts on a service project had planted this land thick with white pine, green spruce, blue spruce.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Some of the color choices include blue spruce, driftwood, morning matcha, moonstone grey, and midnight blue.
    — Terri Williams, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Popular species are white sedum, cascade stonecrop, blue spruce, and Japanese stonecrop.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The farm has six varieties to choose from blue spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, Cannan fir and white fir.
    — Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter color and ability to screen out the neighbors.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • Soon, the aspens are swallowed up in mixed conifer woodlands of Douglas firs, ponderosa pines and Engelmann and blue spruce.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • Mingled with the ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and blue spruce are waves of quaking aspen at the higher elevations.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • As a result, what was originally a course built on farmland was crowded with crab apples, flowering cherries, blue spruces and loads and loads of pin oaks.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 14 June 2025
  • Warm, wet weather in the summer can provide the right conditions for this fungal disease that can result in serious damage to a blue spruce.
    — oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Those looking for a more non-traditional Christmas tree color might enjoy the blue spruce’s silver-blue needles.
    — Hannah Drown, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The real magic happens by the Lazy Meadow down amongst the tall pines and blue spruce by the free flowing Esopus Creek.
    — Regina Cole, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • In northern New Mexico, a hunting guide, George Rael, collected antlers and hung some of them from the limbs of a blue spruce.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • This year’s tree is a 45-foot blue spruce donated by the Townsend family of the Morgan Park neighborhood.
    — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Other popular species, such as blue spruce (Picea pungens), also struggle with clay soil, diseases and the changing climate in city and suburban settings.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Each November, the city holds a fundraiser to bring a 34-foot blue spruce from Michigan to serve as the community Christmas tree.
    — Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In the past, Succulent Studios has sent out plants like string of pearls, Pachyphytum oviferum 'Moonstones,' and blue spruce sedum.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And so the Stanford Business School grad created faux trees designed to look like Fraser firs, blue spruce and other popular varieties.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The annual ceremony continues today, and the tree, a blue spruce grown in Virginia, is now planted on the north side of the Ellipse at the White House.
    — Country Living, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The annual ceremony continues today, and the tree, a blue spruce grown in Virginia, is now planted on the north side of the Ellipse at the White House.
    — Country Living, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Balled and burlap trees are available in different sizes and varieties, including Douglas fir, Norway spruce, blue spruce, white pine, Concolor fir and Canaan fir.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The 1985 winner was Stephen Vander Wiede, who supplied a blue spruce, the Association's website notes.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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