Norway spruce

Picea alcoquiana 'Howell's Dwarf'

Sprucing up the Winter Garden

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As gardeners, we seem to often want what we can’t have, and that’s certainly the case for us, and spruces of the genus, Picea. A hot, humid, sandy loam tobacco field in coastal North Carolina isn’t exactly ground zero for growing a lot of spruces well. We’ve learned quite a bit via trial and error

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A Little Bit of Norway

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Looking great in the garden now is a dwarf witches broom selection of Norway spruce, Picea abies ‘Hereny’. Discovered by Hungary’s Józsa Miklós, and first published in 2010, it reportedly matures at 2′ tall in 20 years. Our 4 year old specimen has already reached that size, so we expect our warm summers will make

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