Picea abies 'Wingle's Weeper' is an extremely pendulous selection of Norway spruce. If not staked, it will lay flat on the ground becoming a ground cover. With age, it will develop a terminal leader becoming an irregular upright weeping tree. Needles are very short and tight, Blue-green in color. This plant makes a handsome specimen if staked to about 8 feet (2.6 m) vertical and then allowed to weep on it's own after reaching that height and it will form ground cover skirt. Size estimates are frivolous with this plant. Just be aware that the terminal branches may grow a foot (30 cm) or more per year.
This cultivar originated as a seedling selected by Mat Wingle at his Christmas tree farm at Cedar Ridge Nursery, Augusta, New Jersey. In his wholesale catalog circa 1992 it lists the plant as Picea abies 'Wingle's Pendula' which was an illegitimate cultivar name because the use of Latin terms in cultivar names is not allowed after 1959.
