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 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.
- Potentillas & Barberries – great choices for sunny locations
- Spireas, Hydrangeas, Boxwood, Arborvitae & Yews– great choices for partial sun/ partial shade locations
- Rose of Sharon – great for late season color
- Lilacs – many colors available
- Burning Bush – nice size plants
- Buckthorn columnar for screens
- Upright Junipers for screens – Moonglow & Spartan
- Xeric selections – Leadplant, Rabbitbrush and more!
Hydrangeas are just beginning to bloom and Creek Side offers many different varieties. Hydrangeas in the Colorado landscape appreciate some shade and regular watering applications. The Panicle types with the conical flowers are easy to grow and most cold tolerant. From as short as 2 feet like varieties Bobo or Little Lime, to as tall as 5 feet like Limelight, Little Quickfire and Firelight this group offers a large variety of colors. The smooth hydrangea group including Bee Friendly and Anna Belle show off large, round flowers and will grow 5-6 feet tall.
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? Sun Valley and Main Street 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 – Brandywine, Sun Valley, Red Sunset, Red Pointe – 40-50’ shade trees with great fall color
- Swedish Columnar Aspen, Columnar European Hornbeam, Straight Plains Cottonwood
- 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!
