Tree Care in Frederick, CO

Your trees in Frederick are part of a unique, high-plains landscape. The native Ponderosa Pines and Blue Spruce you see are adapted to our cool-dry climate and 14 inches of annual rainfall, but the 19-year-old trees planted when your neighborhood was built face different challenges. The most common mistake I see is watering. If your lawn sprinklers run for 15 minutes every day, you're encouraging shallow roots that can't anchor a tree during our frequent wind storms. Trees need deep, infrequent soaking to develop the strong, deep root system that prevents uprooting when our Weld County soils get saturated. We average over 50 storm events a year, and that wind can exploit any weakness. Your mature Blue Spruce or a large Siberian Elm, a common problem species here, becomes a real liability if its roots are only in the top few inches of soil.