This conifer has an upright grey trunk with scaly bark and sweeping horizontal branches with pendant branchlets forming a pyramidal habit. It has glossy dark green needle-like leaves that are whitish underneath and the female cones are cylindrical.   

Hardiness zones 5 to 9 

Picea brewerana is naturally found in North America growing in the Siskiyou Mountains of California and Oregonat an altitude of 2,000m (7,000ft). 

It prefers a well drained fertile sandy-stony soil in an open sunny position and is frost tolerant but drought tender. 

The Weeping Spruce is grown for its pyramidal habit and foliage. It is planted in large or formal gardens as a lawn specimen or used in cool climate gardens. It is suitable for mountain regions establishing in 4 to 7 years and is long lived. It is also grown in woodland settings and alpine gardens. ID 3070

Picea (pi-SEE-ah) brewerana (broo-a-ree-AH-na)

Pinaceae (py-NAY-see-ee)
Larches, spruces, pines, firs, hemlocks and cedars