There are plenty of choices for columnar trees that have been around a long time such as the blue arrow juniper, the skyrocket juniper, pencil point juniper. The slender trees can be planted closer to a house or fence than a regular tree. The reason the breeders are doing so much work on the columnar trees is so someone with a yard not big enough for a full-size tree can go vertical. I noticed a slender tulip poplar, Emerald Green Arborvitaes, two types of columnar oaks, a columnar ginkgo that was stunning called gold Spier ginkgo, and my favorite, a crimson point flowering plum which we just got some in from Monrovia. I was walking around the campus at Mississippi State where they have done some great plantings. The plant breeders are doing a lot of work in the elliptical growth habit world. We are eight years into it, and they are 35 feet tall and only 12 feet in circumference. We are hoping that since sweetgums are native here, they will be a safer bet. Finding an Italian cypress that would match 10 years of growth is very hard to do. We love the Italian cypress in a line look, but they have proved to be too unreliable, just when you get 10 years of growth in a line one will just decide it’s time to go. If you lose one, it’s really hard to find a replacement that will match the others size wise. It is a brave thing to do to line a driveway or road with one type of plant. We lined our road leading to the barn with them planting evergreen arborvitaes between each one so that when the sweet gums have dropped their skirts, we still have tall elliptical green all winter. Slender silhouettes grow exactly like Italian cypress, tall and skinny. They drop gold leaves every day while the entire tree turns bright yellow. My dark green slender silhouette sweet gums are usually first to the dance. That’s not all that’s dropping, at home we’ve been keeping our battery powered blower on the charger in order to keep up with the daily leaf fall. By then the temperatures begin to drop again. With our nighttime temperatures getting into the 60s, it is much later in the day that it gets hot. I imagine it must feel this way in parts of Colorado all summer long. The air is crisp because the humidity is lower, and it seems like there’s less haze in the sky which always leads to that October sunburn. We have finally reached the temperatures that make things change in our yard and in our spirits. As we roll into October there is a change in the air.
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