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Nursery Direct
White Spruce
Picea glauca
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 70Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
White Spruce - Picea glauca
White Spruce is a cool-climate conifer that builds a dense, narrow cone of blue-green needles and holds that shape without any pruning at all. Picea glauca comes from the boreal forests of Canada, so in Australia it belongs in genuinely cool districts: the Tasmanian midlands, the Victorian and New South Wales highlands, the Adelaide Hills, the Blue Mountains and Canberra. Chosen over Colorado Spruce for a softer needle and a tighter, more uniform outline, it is the conifer for a formal cool-climate garden where symmetry is the point.
Why White Spruce
Natural Symmetry: It forms an even conical crown on its own, with no shaping required to keep the line.
Cold Hardiness: Handles severe frost, snow load and freezing wind that would damage most ornamental trees.
Year-Round Colour: Grey-green to blue-green needles hold through winter when deciduous plantings are bare.
Dense Habit: Branches carry right to the ground on an open-grown tree, so it screens as well as it decorates.
Long Life: A slow, steady conifer that becomes a landmark tree in a cool-climate property.
Ideal Applications
Cool-Climate Feature Tree: A single specimen on a lawn where its cone shape can be seen from all sides.
Windbreak Row: Planted in a line on a rural block it filters cold prevailing wind off open paddocks.
Formal Pairs: Matched trees flanking a gate or drive entrance in a highland garden.
Living Christmas Tree: Its classic profile and stiff branching suit that use in cold districts.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m centres for a windbreak or screening row.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6 to 8m for avenue planting or as a stand-alone specimen.
Best Planting Season: Autumn or early spring, while soil is moist and temperatures are mild.
Soil & Drainage: Cool, moist, acidic to neutral loam with reliable drainage. It will not persist in hot, dry, alkaline or poorly drained ground, and it dislikes humid subtropical summers.
Establishment Care: Water deeply through the first three summers, as the root system is shallow and dries out fast under heat stress. Mulch widely with pine bark or woodchip to keep the root zone cool, keep turf and competing grass well clear of the trunk, and avoid planting where afternoon sun reflects off paving or walls.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 15m in cool Australian gardens over many decades, well short of the 20m plus it reaches in Canada
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Canada and the northern United States
Flower Colour: Insignificant, followed by slender pale brown cones
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







