Colorado Trees

With about 20 different species, this member of the rose family is a versatile, showy landscape plant that can be grown as a tall shrub or small tree.

If you’re looking for a medium-large shade tree that’s easy to grow, showy, nice-smelling and loves living in Colorado as much as you do, take a look at the Linden.

You’ll know that spring has sprung if there’s an Eastern Redbud tree in the area. It fairly screams “Winter’s over!” with a brilliant display of thousands of purplish-pink flowers before leafing out for summer.

The honey locust is a North American native that grows naturally in the moist soils of river valleys from the Appalachians west to the eastern edge of the Great Plains and Central Texas. It’s a fast-growing, rounded tree that tops out between 65-100 feet.

The Western Catalpa tree, sometimes called a Catawba or Helicopter tree, is a large broadleaf deciduous tree that works well as a showpiece in a space large enough to accommodate its 40-75-foot height and up to 40-foot wingspan.

The Ohio Buckeye isn’t native to Colorado, but like so many other immigrants from the Midwest, it thrives here.