The Colorado Blue Spruce is an exceptionally hardy conical shaped evergreen with densely growing horizontal branches and stiff short needles. The tree can range in colour from green to silvery blue simply due to genetic variation. They require no maintenance, are deer resistant and drought tolerant. Colorado Blue Spruce are an excellent choice for taming the wind and year round privacy. They are the most common and reliable evergreen planted in the region.

The Ponderosa Pine is a large evergreen well suited to our region, valued for its exceptional drought tolerance and its ability to provide year-round green in a variety of garden settings. It produces soft, bushy clusters of very long pine needles, typically in bundles of three and sometimes two, and as it matures it develops distinctive plates of exfoliating orange bark that many people say smell like butterscotch mixed with vanilla. The tree bears quite large pine cones armed with notably sharp spines, and it grows symmetrically with a strong central leader when young before gradually maturing into a more open, rounded form with age. Highly versatile, the Ponderosa Pine can be planted as an accent, for shade, or as part of a shelter belt, and it is native to much of western North America.