at The Gardens
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A project of the CSU Mesa County Extension Office & the Mesa County Fairgrounds

Photos and a list of trees and shrubs planted in this area

This area is between the future site of the Amphitheater and the turfgrass/crabapple demonstration site.

Photos of the planting crew - February 3, 2006

Holes were dug and trees were set.

The trees were checked for proper planting depth and the planting holes filled.

The deciduous trees were guyed.

All trees and shrubs were then watered and mulched.

Trees and shrubs planted this far in this area:

Abies concolor - White Fir
Acer rubrum ' Red Sunset' - Red Sunset Maple
Cedrus atlanticus ' Glauca Pendula' - Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar
Cedrus deodara 'Sander's Blue' - Sander's Blue Deodar Cedar
Cedrus libani 'Beacon Hill' - Beacon Hill Cedar of Lebanon
Cercis canadensis ' Forest Pansy' - Forest Pansy Redbud
Magnolia x 'Yellow Bird' - Yellow Bird Magnolia
Photonia davidiana - Photonia aka David's Stranvesie
Picea pungens 'Bakeri' - Baker Spruce
Picea pungens 'Mission' - Mission Blue Colorado Spruce
Pseudotsuga menziesii glauca - Douglas Fir
Pyrus calleryana 'Cleveland Select' - Cleveland Select Flowering Pear
Quercus mohriana - Mohr's Oak
Quescus pallustris - Pin Oak
Sambucus nigra'Gerda' - Black Beauty Elderberry
Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' - Emerald Green Arborvitae

Crabapples - to complete our collection of 25

Malus 'Sentinel' - Sentinel Crabapple
Malus 'Royal Raindrops' - Royal Raindrops Crabapple
Malus 'Zumi Calocarpa' - Zumi Calocarpa Crabapple
Malus 'Cascole' - Cascole Crabapple
Malus x 'Spring Snow' - Spring Snow Crabapple
Malus 'Sutyzam' - Spring Tyme Crabapple

Additional trees and shrubs will be added in the spring and summer of 2006.