Beautiful summertime weather conditions in store for the next couple of weeks. The 90 degree days will make your landscape grow with adequate moisture applied. Let’s make our landscape beautiful!
Landscape planting
It is not too late to plant trees and shrubs if you water them adequately. The Creek Side selection of shrubs and trees of all sizes for your landscape planting is tremendous. Lots of new growth with buds and flowers. Use Root Stimulator or Bio-Tone and Nature’s Yield Compost at planting time.
Shrubs
Beautiful full-size shrubs are growing up fast. Lots of Potentilla, Spirea, Barberry, Dogwood and Boxwood looking great! Looking for xeric selections? Creek Side has an expanded selection of native and dry land shrubs. Check out the Rabbitbrush, Leadplant, Tri-Lobed Sumac and Golden Currant shrubs, Mexican Privet, Mountain Mahogany.
- Potentilla & Barberries – great choices for sunny locations
- Spirea, Boxwood, Arborvitae – great choices for partial sun/ partial shade locations
- Viburnum – several varieties & heights available
- Dogwood – short & tall heights. Need a little water.
- Symphoricarpus – excellent mid-size three season shrubs
- Caryopteris & Buddleia – Butterfly Bush
- Buckthorn columnar for screens
- Upright Junipers for screens – Moonglow & Cry Baby Weeping
Xeric/ Native Shrubs are a Creek Side specialty. Stop by for ideas and to explore the many options available. Then put your plan together. Begin with your height requirements. Then mix in foliage color and texture to create a natural western landscape.
- Tidy Peashrub – 4′-5′ tall
- Four Wing Saltbrush – 2-4′ tall
- Manzanita – – broadleaf evergreen for part shade
- Rock Spirea – 2′-4′ tall
- Boulder Sandcherry – low-growing native
- Fernbush – 3′-5′ tall
- Red Yucca – yucca leaves with tall spikes of red flowers
- Rabbitbrush – blue/green foliage
Trees
Big, beautiful trees ready for planting right now. Get these trees established this year and they will really take off next year providing shade and beauty in your landscape.
Red maples are the most popular tree that Creek Side gets requests for. Several different varieties of red maples are available now in a size with good value and ease of handling.
Have you considered a nice 20’-40′ ornamental tree for your yard? Hotwings, Rocky Mountain and Sensation Maples have leafed out beautifully and are ready to provide pleasing lines and color to your landscape offering great fall color. For shade-providing trees consider Autumn Blaze or Red Sunset red maple and Redpointe which are excellent Colorado landscape choices.
- Red maples – Red Sunset, Red Pointe – 40-50’ shade trees with great fall color
- Quacking Aspen, Columnar European Hornbeam, Straight Plains Cottonwood. Ohio Buckeye
- Skyline & Sunburst Honeylocust
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Austrian Pine
Cruise the Creek Side Woodlands Walkway soon to discover what mid-summer blooming shrubs might brighten your landscape! Shop for the best availability today!
