Red Cones on Weeping Norway Spruce and Skylands Spruce in Spring - May 2025

This is the second Spring with the pair of Weeping Norway Spruce trees (planted IB2DWs) in our garden - with this growing season showing the same unique color as last year:  red or purple cones growing at the tips.   Here's a post from last April showing the brightly-colored small cones on the tips of the Norway Spruces.  

This year, the trees are showing those same red or purple cones - but in greater numbers.  Below are a couple of photos showing these colorful cones on Weeping Norway Spruce - Picea spruce 'Pendula':

But those aren't the *only* Spruce trees we have in the front yard; as I planted a small Skylands Spruce in the Island Bed last Fall.  This being the first Spring (for the tree) is also the first year for the red or purple cones on Skylands.  Lovely to see.  Photo of Skylands Spruce with purple cones below:

What follows these cones is the small burst of lime green - or in the case of Sklyands...likely chartreuse green - growth that occurs at the tips.  Here's a look at last year's new growth in Spring.