Favorite Colorado Native Trees for Front Range Landscapes
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Colorado has some magnificent native trees for Front Range homeowners to use in the landscape. The Front Range Gardener counts down his favorite Colorado native trees.
Pinyon pine, Concolor fir (white fir), Ponderosa pine (yellow pine), Colorado Blue Spruce
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Pinyon Pine
02:13 Concolor Fir
03:17 Ponderosa Pine
05:12 Colorado Blue Spruce
06:40 Conclusion
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Great choices
Thank you!
Great stuff! Mrs front range gardener should make an appearance.
We are going to plant a Colorado Blue Spruce in memory of our daughter who died two years ago.
What a great memorial. I'm sorry for your loss.
All good choices, except the Ponderosa pine. The deer in my neighborhood just devastate the lower branches. I would use concolor much more often than blue spruce, which are subject to tip back.
Your experience with ponderosa pine is very interesting to me. I live in a neighborhood that is essentially a ponderosa pine forest, and we are full of deer, and I haven't seen the same problem. I love the concolor fir. It's too bad it's not planted more widely. Thanks for watching.
Yes to the concolor fir! ❤
It's an excellent tree.
This information is so timely for me! I really need something even smaller as an evergreen (maybe 8 feet or smaller) - perhaps a shrub. It sounds like a Colorado Blue Spruce cultivar could be that petite!
Although not a native, many cultivars of mugo pine may also work for you. Thanks for watching.
@@FrontRangeGardener thank you! I tried to overwinter a mugo pine in a container last year with zero success. In the landscape should do much better! Thanks, as always. :0)
We have a blue spruce in our back yard that's 40 ft tall and still growing. Live at 6200 ft in Castle Rock.
Those are beautiful trees. Thanks for watching, neighbor!
Caddo Sugar Maple and Bigtooth Maple are my two favorite trees due to their reliability. :)
Tulip Poplar is also a recent East Coast tree that has just now been being planted here in Colorado and they seem to be doing very good. Same with Hardy Rubber Tree
I had not heard of the Caddo Sugar Maple before. It sounds like a great tree. Thanks for watching.
I happened upon you and find you videos very helpful. I have a blue spruce that is ailing from needle drop over and above the normal drop. I want to deep root water it, but I don't know how long to water for using this tool. Can you give me some guidance? I live in Colorado Springs.
Most roots are found in the top foot of soil. A generous surface watering should be sufficient. I don't use a deep watering tool in my landscape.
I thought the Front Range got a good amount of precipitation in the last three months.
Thank you! For those of us who have HOAs that require deciduous trees for landscaping, what would you recommend?
I know a few non-native trees that might fit the bill. If you want to plant a maple, you have to be very particular as to the variety. Many don't thrive in our alkaline soils. Two that do well are 'Hot wings' and 'Autumn blaze'.
I also like the thornless cockspur hawthorn. This is a well behaved smaller deciduous tree.
I love the look of aspen trees, but they have many downsides unfortunately
Aspen is an example of a beautiful native tree that makes a terrible landscape tree for the Front Range. Thank you for watching.
Do you have any resources or a video on native shrubs especially for hedges? I would like to try and do a privacy type hedge but really want to keep them native as much as possible.
I made a video on native shrubs for Fall color. Regent Serviceberry or red-twig dogwood might work for a hedge. It's not my landscaping style, so more research is needed. ua-cam.com/video/CsQkz7xfnp4/v-deo.html
@@FrontRangeGardener thank you so much
what are your thoughts on the Autumn Purple as a landscaping shade tree?
I wasn't familiar with it, so I looked it up at Colorado State University. It has a note, "Performs poorly in Colorado, short lived. Extremely prone to Lilac/Ash borer." See cmg.extension.colostate.edu/white-ash-autumn-purple-white-ash/
How about Rocky Mountain juniper?
I'm familiar with the Utah juniper. I think that is an example of a tree that's beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's not a.favoritw of mine, but if you like it, I think that's awesome. One caution with junipers is flammability. Don't plant them near homes or other structures.
Thanks for watching.
@@FrontRangeGardener Thanks for the flammability tip. And great channel! I've used a few of your tips (had no idea that Aspen are that much of a pain, for example).
Blue spruce requires too much water. When I bought my house there were several scattered throughout the Ponderosa. I didn’t water them for a couple of years with high rainfall and they all died. They don’t provide enough food for wildlife. Pretty, but too high maintenance.
True, Colorado Blue Spruce and Concolor Fir do need more water than ponderosa pine and pinyon pine. Thanks for watching.
A mound of mulch might change that but there’s so many fruit trees you could grow in the same place with less water