Keeping Your Landscape Beautiful Year-Round
Keeping your landscape beautiful year-round is a challenge. Landscapes that thrive during the spring, summer and fall months, can look flat and uninteresting during the winter. As the grey, cold sets in and foliage falls from trees and plants, evergreens can help maintain color and shape to an otherwise flat landscape. You may even consider investing in a professional landscape design from a local landscape contractor in order to acheive year-round beauty.
As a favorite amongst horticulturists, the silvery-blue Colorado blue spruce tree is a gorgeous tree as an ornamental part of your landscape or as a row of trees to form a sturdy windbreak. These evergreen conifers, provide great foliage year round, but are especially appreciated during the winter months when snowy-grey can overtake the scenery. Growing to heights of 30’- 60’ with base widths of 10’- 20’, the Colorado blue spruce is a hardy, deer-resistant tree that can be appreciated year-round.
A popular trend is using container planted blue spruce trees for Christmas trees to decorate your home and then planting them as landscape plants after the holiday season. This can become a fun tradition for your family as well as a great addition to your landscaping. Determine where you want to plant your tree before the ground freezes. Colorado blue spruce trees should be planted in moist, fertile soil in partial to full sun areas. Dig your hole in advance and plant when you take your holiday decorations down. In future years the tree can be used for outside holiday decorating.
If you are considering using the Colorado blue spruce in your landscape, check with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant hardiness zoning map. Colorado blue spruce trees grow in zones 3-7.
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