How to Use blue spruce in a Sentence

blue spruce

noun

• If the weather’s fair, grab a seat outside under the shade of a 100-year-old blue spruce.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The farm offers blue spruces and at least six different firs.
  — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Dec. 2019
• The low branches on my beautiful blue spruce look to be dying.
  — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Trees Available are: blue spruce, white pine, red oak, sugar maple, wild black cherry, and sycamore.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The land where the blue spruce stood now holds a senior center and veterans facility.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Therese Leonard-Viramontes, who has lived in Wrightwood almost 12 years, said her husband was standing outside Tuesday morning when the roaring wind snapped in half two trees, including a 30-foot blue spruce, in their yard.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• Still, Keith Leitz, human resources director for the city, said the approximately 40-year-old, 40-foot blue spruce in question is very difficult to replace, thanks to its size and its location near the center of town.
  — The Bulletin, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2018
• Winterfarm is one of about a half-dozen cut-your-own Christmas tree farms in Harford County gearing up to provide firs and blue spruce during a year that industry experts predict an unusually heavy demand for live trees.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Several species of evergreen trees are commonly harvested for Christmas trees, including Fraser fir, balsam fir, blue spruce, Scotch pine, and Norway spruce.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024