The Pregnant spruce is a hefty Englemann I bought from Natures Way during a Norbilly trip with fellow Norbilly larchman David Severson. It was a western collected tree--probably from Mr. Knight. It is quite blue and my wife has always wanted me to have a blue spruce so I went for it. It does have a flaw in that it has a bulging gall formation on its trunk--but I don't care--I liked it. Its foliage is far out but it is B-budding pretty well. It had been wired when I got earlier by some traveling pro--I don't remember who. Nothing dramatic--very sprucy. Anyway It was digging in and needed some thinning so I got it done a couple weeks ago--and some preliminary carving, which will need a lot more.