Englewood’s tree canopy tells the story of a community built out decades before Highlands Ranch or Lone Tree existed. Blocks near Broadway, Cherokee Street and the South Platte River trail are lined with silver maple, honeylocust, American elm and cottonwood that have been growing for fifty years or more, many on lots too small to […]
Tree Risk Assessment and Fall Care for Englewood’s Aging Urban Canopy Read More »
Highlands Ranch’s tree canopy has matured. Neighborhoods planted in the 1980s and 1990s along the Highline Canal and throughout Backcountry communities now carry decades-old honeylocust, bur oak, Colorado blue spruce and Autumn Blaze maple. At nearly 6,000 feet, these trees face heavy clay soil, high wind exposure and sudden hailstorms that stress branches and bark
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Highlands Ranch has one of the most consistent tree canopies in the south metro. Streets, parks and residential lots throughout the community were planted with the same reliable species during development, and green ash was one of the most common choices. It established quickly, provided reliable shade and fit the visual standard the community was
Highlands Ranch Stump Grinding: When the Ash Tree Comes Down, the Job Isn’t Finished Read More »
Most stumps in Littleton don’t get ground right away. A tree comes down, the yard gets cleaned up, and the stump gets left for another time. In a neighborhood where the landscaping has been accumulating for decades, that’s an easy call to delay. But what happens in the meantime is worth understanding before that delay
Parker has two very different kinds of trees, and that difference matters more than most homeowners realize when it comes time to grind a stump. Along Cherry Creek, mature cottonwoods and willows have been growing for decades. In the newer neighborhoods like Stonegate, Canterberry Crossing and Stroh Ranch, trees like blue spruce, Austrian pine and
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Most homeowners in Centennial consider the job finished when the tree hits the ground. The crew cleans up, the trunk is gone and the yard looks different. But underneath the surface, in the clay-heavy soil that runs through much of Centennial’s residential landscape, the story is still unfolding. The stump and the root system attached
Englewood is not a new city. Settled well before most of the south metro communities that surround it, its residential neighborhoods reflect decades of layered development, with housing stock that in many blocks dates back to the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The trees planted alongside those homes are just as old in a lot of
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Centennial covers more ground than most people realize. The city stretches from areas close to the South Platte River corridor in the west out toward the open, exposed terrain that edges into the high plains to the east. That geographic spread means two homeowners in Centennial can have fundamentally different tree care needs based on
Tree Trimming Centennial: Not Every Neighborhood Here Grows the Same Read More »
Highlands Ranch was built out primarily between the mid-1980s and early 2000s. The trees planted during that development window are now anywhere from 25 to 40 years old. That puts a significant portion of the community’s residential canopy at a crossroads that most homeowners haven’t thought about yet. This isn’t a maintenance conversation. It’s a
Tree Trimming in Highlands Ranch: The Decisions You Make Now Matter More Than You Think Read More »
Denver has one of the most recognizable urban tree canopies on the Front Range. It didn’t happen by accident. The boulevard and parkway network developed in the late 1800s, much of it shaped by landscape architect Reinhard Schuetze, was designed with trees as civic infrastructure, not just decoration. American elms, honey locusts and lindens were
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