Blue Spruce

Not sure if it's a blue spruce but it looks like one. Not this past winter but the previous two in the eastern half of US we had a terrible, brutal cold winter, we had a polar vortex which was an extended period of time at sub zero temps, anyway this tree was gorgeous, but after these two winters it seemed to lose a great many branches on the bottom of it's trunk. Will there ever be any new growth or do I just cut those branches off, I think it's the later, which I hate doing then the tree will be ugly.

You should show us pictures of your plant, from which better advice may be given.

OK, I took a few photos of the tree. The tree is on the western side of the driveway, on the right it would be the north on the left, the south.

I don't think you have a Blue Spruce there (Picea pungens var. glauca or just Picea pungens 'Glauca'). Your tree looks more like a Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/81397

If you were to take some clear closeups of the foliage and branches, an absolute ID can be made. The ascendent habit of the overall tree form, and the forward-pointing needles on the branches show me that this isn't likely to be a Blue Spruce.

That said: your brutal cold winters could very likely have damaged this species more so than some others which are more cold hardy. I also suspect that if you are using much in the way of de-icing substances during such winters, that can be causing some of the malaise that you observe.

Where there are new growths showing on branches, there is still life. Only you can choose to wait for potential recovery of these parts of the tree. There will NOT be new branches springing forth from the trunk or other leafless/needle-less parts of the tree - only from the live growing tips.

OK, thank you for that, I did suspect it would not grow any new branches but I was just hoping. There is new growth, a lot of new growth all over the tree but the bottom has nothing. Some branches that have new growth only have it at the ends of the branch so will the rest of the branch eventually fill in? I do know it isn't a blue spruce I just don't know it's name other than a Xmas tree. I know if I remove the middle section of the new growth in the spring, it usually has 3 tiny sections of needles, the tree will start to fill out which I have been doing but it is now too high to get to. So I think I will remove the bottom branches and hope for the best. Those 2 winters in the eastern US also killed 3 Leyland Cyprus trees, and I have two Crape Mertyl trees that are now really starting to come around, a good deal of the top of those trees died, Thank you for the reply

You are quite welcome. If you care to post more images, then we can provide more certain information.

Your description of death of other zone 7 plants (Leyland-cypress and Crape-myrtle) kind of confirms my thoughts about the cold winter damage to your conifer.