Norway Gold
Many of the winter gold colored spruces don’t color up well in our climate. Once exception is the Norway spruce selection, Picea abies ‘Aurea Magnifica’, which has been absoluty wonderful during our cold weather.
Sprucing up the Winter Garden
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
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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