My New Love by Gina Wells

  My husband and I dreamt of a mountain home, with a year round running creek and easy access to Denver. After a year of searching for that perfect place, we put an offer in on a property in December 2012. After five months of waiting we closed on the house and moved in a month later.   We discovered that summer we had 27 dead or dying Cottonwood trees on our property and needed to have them removed because of the possible damage they could cause. Once they were removed, our property felt barren. We decided to invest in 8-10 foot trees to provide a sound barrier, a wind break, privacy and beauty to our landscape. Oh, did I mention that we figured we may not have 20 or 30 years to see the trees grow in all their glory so we decided to start big. This was the beginning of my passion for trees. We admired the many 30-40 foot Colorado Spruce trees on our property and knew that more would be a perfect fit. We thought our landscape would be more visually interesting if we chose a variety of