Weeping Norway Spruce

The Weeping Norway Spruce is a unique and remarkable evergreen feature plant that has more character than just about any other plant you can grow. It will scramble and cascade across the ground, or it can be trained upon a fence or wall. It can be staked into an upright form up to 15 feet tall, or allowed to spread across the ground in an ever-widening circle. This is a hardy tree that will be happy in the coldest areas of the country, and will easily survive winter temperatures of minus 40 degrees. It will grow in almost any kind of soil, in a sunny spot, and it will easily survive dry periods, once established.

• Unique weeping and scrambling habit
• Outstanding specimen plant for many different locations
• Grow it naturally or train it as you wish into many forms
• Winter hardy to minus 40 degrees
• Grows in all kinds of soils and is pest and disease-free

Use the Weeping Norway Spruce is an Asian-themed garden or planted among rocks and gravel in any garden at all. Train it on a wall or stake it up into a specimen tree. Its unique form and enormous character will bring something very special into any garden, and be a great talking point with friends and neighbors too. The possibilities are endless for using this remarkable plant in any garden.

The majority of trees grow into an upright or rounded form. So plants that don’t do that always catch the eye and are very important to bring character to the garden. Weeping plants are particularly useful and loved by gardeners, because they contrast so well with other plants, and allow us to make marvelous accents, as well as looking beautiful on slopes and banks, or cascading over walls. The Weeping Norway Spruce is more than just a weeping plant – it is a unique and very special plant that has enormous character and brings something very special into your garden.

If you garden in colder areas, finding interesting and hardy plants can be that much more difficult, but with the Weeping Norway Spruce we have a plant that is hardy to minus 40 degrees and thrives in all the cooler regions of the country. It will grow readily in almost any kind of is well-drained soil, and once established it will survive normal summer drought with ease. This tree has no significant pests and diseases, so it needs no special care – or really any care at all – to thrive and grow into a fascinating specimen.

Growing Weeping Norway Spruce Trees

The Weeping Norway Spruce is an intriguing and eye-catching evergreen plant. It is a special form of the large, upright Norway Spruce tree, but with branches that hang down vertically, instead of growing upright. Left alone it will develop into a creeping mound of branches two or three feet tall, spreading as much as 10 feet in all directions. Grown that way it makes a terrific plant for any sunny location, undulating across gravel or a stone-covered bed, which could be a flat area, or a slope. Planted at the top of a wall it will cascade down in a very attractive way, softening the appearance of the wall. This tree will look beautiful in all seasons, with its softer-green new growth in spring or with its needles dusted with snow in the winter months.