The Gardens on Spring Creek

Blooms on 'Golden Delicious' apple trees in the Garden of Eatin' What’s Blooming:  Fruit Tree Varieties for the Front Range by Sherry Fuller, Horticulturist, Gardens on Spring Creek Blossoms are starting show, and not much is as rewarding as a large crop of home-grown fruit.   With just a little forethought you can have that bonus in your own yard!     First, a few considerations.   How much room do you have?   Standard size fruit trees can grow too large for a city lot in just a few years.   Dwarf fruit trees are available and are cute, but sometimes the root stocks they are grafted onto aren’t as winter hardy as needed for our climate.   Semi-dwarf trees usually mature in the 10 - 12 feet size range and are often the most readily available at nurseries.   Or consider growing raspberries, currants or strawberries that are much smaller plants.   (More about them later.)   Some varieties of fruit trees won’t produce fruit unless you plant more than one variety.   In ge