Unique Features: This cultivar of Colorado Blue spruce is one has been around a while (it was found as a chance seedling in 1933) and is often referred to by its patent name Bacheri.  It grows intermediately into a broad conical form that is somewhat irregular in character unless pruned occasionally.  The foliage emerges a sort of silvery blue and  then ages to more of a steel blue and finally the oldest interior needles are more of a blue green.  Natural blue spruces tend to turn greener with age.  The search for a durable, a consistent blue color is part of the reason there are so many cultivated varieties of Colorado spruce.  The stiff sharp needles make the Colorado spruce less attractive to deer.