Picea Species, Silver Spruce, Sitka Spruce, Tideland Spruce, Western Spruce

Does not do well in the aastern United States, gets needlecast disease from it being too hot and humid here, not very cold hardy for a spruce either.

I have had this conifer for over 5 years and like it very much. However, this spring it is dropping its needles and is almost bare on ov...Read Moreer 1/2 of the plant. I do not know the cause for it to drop its needles like this and do not know if the plant will survive.

I have bought some bareroot, potted them up, and neglected them. I think that with reasonable care they would survive, perhaps thrive, h...Read Moreere in North Florida: the heat seems hardly to bother them, just not getting water in their pots when the rains fail is too much. Might be a nice change from the usual North Florida alien standards.