Do trees naturally grow in Denver?

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Do trees naturally grow in Denver?

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Actually, you're closer to correct than many people who think of Denver as being in the mountains. We are on the high desert, drier than the mountains and our plants and trees reflect that.

Denver is a Tree City USA because of the transplanted trees brought west by early inhabitants. The cottonwood is the only tree native to the plains (evergreen and aspen are native to the mountains, not Denver). The elm tree was planted extensively, but has succumbed to Dutch elm disease a few decades ago, so many are dead and cut down. Just about every other kind of disciduous tree from other parts of the country have been planted here and there are great neighborhoods in Denver with a canopy of mature trees over the boulevards (17th Ave. east of Colorado Blvd. comes to mind). Maple and ash trees do very well and have been planted extensively in the suburbs in new developments because they grow quickly. Most of these trees do need supplmental watering and can't survive on natural rainfall alone.Geez, you think? No they don't just walk up to them and feel them, they are all plastic.
No, we push them out of the soil
yup, Aspens, Cotton Wood, Evergreens , all were here before we got here except the cell phone towers that look like tall pine trees
The natural native tree is the cotton wood and they originally were located along any of the streams around Denver.

Of course in the mountain's different types of pines, aspen, spruce and some cedars.

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