Bird S Nest Spruce Bonsai

The birds nest spruce has fine foliage and a flat spread that combined with a dip in the middle makes it look like a bird s nest.

Bird s nest spruce bonsai. Bird s nest spruce fits well with other evergreens and flowering shrubs giving structure to your planting without growing tall and blocking windows. This is a cultivar of the majestic norway spruce. Nigel saunders the bonsai zone 26 727 views. It has horizontal branching helps to ground it in the landscape.

The bird s nest spruce or nest spruce picea abies nidiformis is named for its nestlike appearance. The shrub gets its common name from a depression in the center that makes it look like a bird s nest. Its new foliage emerges lime green in spring. Height 29 width 48.

Plant hardiness zones 3 7. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 7. Bird s nest spruce picea abies nidiformis is a dwarf multistemmed evergreen shrub hardy in u s. This little guy is slow growing and may take 10 years or more to reach mature size.

Bird s nest spruce s form is flat on top with a concave center and densely needled stems. Planted in a large container it makes a lovely specimen with no maintenance needed at all. It make a low flat topped densly layered mound of light green cascading needles. Dwarf norway spruce branches are produced in horizontal layers which grow thickly on the shrub.