Picea pungens 'Chip's Catch' is a cute, speading dwarf selection of Colorado spruce which, with age will develop a short terminal leader, becoming a squat conical shrublet. It prickly needles are a unique light bluish green and its overall structure is fairly dense and quite compact. After 10 years in the garden a mature specimen will be 12 to 18 inches (30 - 45 cm) tall and 24 inches (60 cm) wide, a annual rate of growth of about 1.5 inches (4 cm).
This cultivar originated as a witch's broom found in 199 by Jerry Morris of Lakewood, Colorado. It's provisional name was Picea pungens [#106], which means that 'Chip's Catch' was the 106th Colorado spruce broom that Jerry found and named.
