spruce · Picea omorika
Serbian Spruce Christmas trees
The one for a room with no room.
Serbian spruce is the answer to a problem the other trees cannot solve: you want height, and you do not have the floor for it.
It grows distinctly narrow, with slightly drooping branchlets that sweep back up at the tips. The needles are dark green with two white bands underneath, so the whole tree shifts between green and silver as you move around it.
In a tight corner, a stairwell, or a flat where a nine-foot fir would take the room hostage, this is the tree. We grow it at Clear Lake.