Arctostaphylos columbiana 'Spruce Blue' [larger form] Part Shade/Shade and smooth dark gray bark

and smooth dark gray bark that matures to a scaly and fissured surface

Can be cut back to encourage more flowering

probably into 7

Will make you look 10 years younger

Arctostaphylos columbiana 'Spruce Blue' [larger form] Part Shade/Shade and smooth dark gray barkA Cistus introduction. From a wonderful cluster of diversity just east of Laurence Lake near Mt. Hood, OR, comes this larger form to 5' tall x 8' wide with upright branches, and nearly imbricate leaf pattern that is wooly, narrow, and indeed quite blue. The mounding form still shows the structure of the attractive orange bark. White flowers, winter to mid spring, give way to pumpkin colored fruit from late summer into autumn. Bright light, mineral