Pam Moore wrote in
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The one I mean is the traditional green chappie not the later (more
fashionable ?) blue things. Anyone know its name? I expect common or
latin would do.

It is picea abies or Norway Spruce.

....but I would think twice about planting one if I were you. They grow
pretty fast, and are not at all attractive once they have got past the
'christmas tree' size. My mother has one planted perhaps 20 years ago:
it's all lanky bare trunk and bubbles of sap.

Pick something slower-growing, or be prepared to give it the chop a few
years hence.

Victoria