Buy Colorado Fruit Trees, Nut Tree, Shade tree, Bamboo Plant, Grape Vines, Flowering Trees, and Berry Plants

Most Colorado gardeners and homeowners want to harvest a fruit nut or berry crop as soon as possible so that the apparent choice is to plant a large vine or tree or to set out a fast growing tree. When selecting a plant it is important to realize that a tree that grows fast is very susceptible to cold damage or death because the fast growing woody tissues do not deposit adequate amounts of cellulose or lignin that hardens the cell wall, thus, making it cold hardy.. A large number of Colorado fruit and nut trees can be grown in backyard gardens. Low Colorado temperatures of minus 20 degrees F. can be the most important factor in deciding which fruit tree will bear reliable crops of fruit. Sour (tart) cherry trees will normally withstand Colorado very cold temperatures and the red Montmorency cherry tree and the North Star red cherry are the top cherry tree selections to grow there. Both of these cherry trees are excellent choices to grow for making cherry pies and jelly, jam and cherry preserves. Apple trees such as the Red Rome or Arkansas Black apples will ripen in late Fall. Peach and Nectarine trees are not generally recommended for Colorado gardens, because peaches and Nectarine trees will often loose their fruit on the trees when late freezes come. Native growing, wild plum trees are cold hardy enough to produce delicious plums in early summer. Plum trees are valuable fruit trees for wildlife bird nesting, and the plum trees are great specimens for attracting and feeding wildlife animals. Several pear tree cultivars are cold hardy enough to fruit in Colorado, and the hard pears are perfect for wildlife deer feeding in late fall, when wildlife fruit, nuts and berries are scarce. The American native chestnut tree has been hybridized a heavy bearing nut tree with sweet kernels that is blight resistant that is adapted to grow in all Colorado climate zones.

Several oak trees such as the fast growing sawtooth oak tree will grow in zones 5 and 6 in CO., and others such as the Gobbler oak tree and the White oak trees are well adapted to produced wildlife animal food, and acorns are eaten by most wildlife deer and game birds. The Wildlife pear tree and the native American crabapple trees will produce wildlife fruit in zone 4, 5 and 6 of CO., and the American native persimmon trees and the Chickasaw plum tree will produce fruit in zones 5 and 6. The cold hardy wild pecan and the native hickory tree will grow in zone 4,5 and 6 of CO. Autumn olive trees and Ogeechee lime trees produce fall food supplies when wildlife food is scarce.



It is difficult to search for and find a cold hardy fig tree for USDA climate zone 5 and 6 that can be successfully grown outside and survive if properly mulched, but the Chicago Hardy fig tree is guaranteed to grow in CO,, and many other fig trees can be grown in greenhouses like the Japanese Green Ischau fig tree, the Black Mission fig trees and the Brown Turkey fig by ordering them from tytyga.com.



Discover the best Colorado plants, vines and shade trees that will experience various amounts of serious cold weather, depending on what USDA cold zone that the garden is planted. Plants and shade trees in zone 3 and zone 4 must be carefully selected to avoid the freezing and killing of the 'incorrect selection choice' of a shade tree by cold temperatures in those frigid zones. The Red Maple tree, the Ginkgo tree, and the CO Sycamore trees are all suggested selections for zone 3 and 4, and the River Birch tree or flowering Japanese Magnolia trees will survive in zone 3 or 4. In zone 5 and 6 of Colorado, the winter temperatures are not as cold, and Ty Ty Nursery recommends planting the Bald Cypress tree, the colorful fall Sour Wood tree, (Sourwood) , and the Tulip Poplar trees. Sweet Gum Trees, Swamp Tupelo and Elm trees are often planted on the East or West side of a residence or office for maximum shade, and the trees will stop erosion and increase the value of your property, as well as lower your power-electric bill. The Lombardy poplar tree is a very fast growing shade tree, growing 8 or more feet the first season, and the Lombardy poplar tree is an excellent privacy screen plant and wind blocker. Find and purchase the best, high quality information and top tips and reviews at Ty Ty Nursery, tytyga.com.



Several kinds of Colorado flowering trees will grow such as the dogwood tree, the redbud trees and the Aristocrat flowering pear tree that is very cold hardy.. Early flowering apricot trees and flowering crabapple trees bloom in colors of red, white and pink, and the crabapple tree can also be found with red leaves, like the red flowering plum tree. The pink, Kwanzan flowering Japanese cherry tree is spectacular, with flowers covering the entire canopy of the tree, and the white Yoshino flowering cherry tree flower opens with single petal blooms.

Thorny and hybrid thornless bramble blackberry plants that are similar to grocery store blackberries and can be grown in your own berry garden, and the new hybrid blackberry plants that were developed at the University of Arkansas berry as a research blackberry project show great promise for increasing berry production with high quality berries at pick-you-own, organic blackberry farms. Colorado berry gardeners are demanding berry plants that produce organic berries in Colorado, berries that can be grown without using inorganic fertilizers and without using insecticide chemicals and fungicides.

Great interest has been shown in growing cold hardy grapevines, such as the seedless red flame grapevine, concord blue grape vine and the Bunch, Niagara white grape vines. The red Catawba grapevine produces large clusters of red wine grapes that also are popular in grape jelly making, grape juice and for enjoying to eat as table grapes. The black Fredonia bunch grape is an excellent cold hardy table grape that makes excellent red wine.

Windmill palm trees are cold hardy palms that will survive the severe Colorado winters, and these palms grow into that tropical look is important when considering pool and patio landscapes. The windmill palm tree survives very cold winters and even the ice and snow even in Switzerland and Canada. Bamboo plants such as the black bamboo plant clumping type and will form an excellent, dense, privacy fence that will keep eliminate sounds from noisy neighbors and automobile highway noises and toxic fumes. The Chinese Golden Goddess bamboo plant is a colorful border plant, as are the Blue Henon bamboo plants and the Alphonse Karr, striped, variegated bamboo tree.

Whether you are a gardener in Pueblo, Colorado Springs (Fort Carson) or Denver, Colorado, bamboo plants are important to plant as fast growing bamboo screens that will protect your privacy and block out fumes and loud noise from automobiles. In Colorado bamboo plants must be planted that are cold tolerant and can survive cold winter temperatures of 20 F degrees below zero. Clumping hedges of bamboo can grow thick and dense up to 20 feet tall in beautifully colors of stalks with exteriors of blue, yellow or black, and the leaves and stems can we inlaid with random streaks of variegation that can extend into the leaves. It's easy to grow bamboo plant privacy fences, if you plant them in full sun or partial shade with a modified organic damp soil. You can order bamboo plant screens from Ty Ty bamboo nursery, tytyga.com that will immediately be shipped to you in boxes and delivered directly to your house any time of the year.


For people who live in Colorado, Yucca trees, Agave plants and Aloe plants are confined to grow them in containers except for the Yuccas that will survive the cold temperatures in winter in zone 5 and 6. The Red Yucca plant Hesperaloe parviflora,has red foliage during the winter with orange 3 ft flower stems in the spring. The Spanish Bayonet, Yucca gloriosa, grows up to 16 feet tall, the Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia, has a unique unearthly shape and can grow over 1000 years old, and the Yucca rostrata, is an exceptionally cold hardy survivor. The Color Guard Yucca, Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' is variegate with stripes of yellow and white vibrant colors. Very few Agave plants armed with their prickly, spiny leaves and fleshy thick and thorny with strange uncanny shapes, can be grown outside in CO, but can be containerized or grown in dish gardens during the winter. The Aloe vera is an important container plant with a juice that can heal insect stings, bites or wounds to the skin.