Chihuahua Spruce

The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5-10 cm across. The crown is conic, with widely spaced branches with drooping branchlets. The shoots are stout, pale buff-brown, glabrous, and with prominent pulvini. The leaves are needle-like, 17-23 mm long, stout, rhombic in cross-section, bright glaucous blue-green with conspicuous lines of stomata; the tip is viciously sharp.

Chihuahua Spruce (Picea chihuahuana) is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25-35 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It is native to northwest Mexico, where it occurs in 25 small populations in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Chihuahua and Durango. It grows at moderate altitudes from 2300-3200 m, growing along streamsides in mountain valleys, where moisture levels in the soil are greater than the otherwise low rainfall in the area would suggest. More

I have read that Chihuahua Spruce (Picea chihuahuana) is heat tolerant. You'd have to look at some photos to see if they fit the look you are going for. I'm trying some Picea abies in the SE US (USDA Zone 7, nearly zone 8), but fear I'm not going to be patient enough to see how many summers they will tolerate. More