Norway Spruce
Picea abies
A fast, majestic spruce whose branches sweep down with age, hung with long cones, a classic windbreak, screen or lawn tree in cold climates, and deer usually pass it by. It grows big, so give it room. It prefers cool summers, grows poorly in hot, humid regions, and dislikes soggy soil.
- Mature size
- 9.5 × 9.5 ft
- 2.9 × 2.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–7b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
Norway Spruce at its mature size
A mature Norway Spruce grows 4 to 15 feet tall and just as wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Norway Spruce looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Curtain of weeping branches with dark green needles.
Photos
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Growing Norway Spruce
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Good for
- Privacy screen, small space, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Europe
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Norway Spruce, that’s about 9.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Norway Spruce in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other spruces
Norway Spruce
Dwarf Alberta Spruce
Black Hills Spruce
Colorado Blue SpruceAll drawn to the same scale.