Growing Lone Tree’s Young Canopy: Fall Tree Planting and Structural Tree Pruning for a Developing City Lone Tree is still growing into its tree canopy. Much of the city, from RidgeGate to the neighborhoods around Sky Ridge and Park Meadows, was built out over the
Why Fall Is the Right Season to Prune Trees Near Littleton’s South Platte Corridor Littleton’s tree canopy runs thickest along the South Platte River and Bear Creek greenway, where cottonwood, silver maple and American elm have grown for generations in some of the most water-rich
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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