This Rocky Mountain Douglasfir is commonly sold at most nurseries in the Midwest and Northeastern US. It is a reliable tree that adapts w...Read Moreell to landscapes in those areas, even tolerating some heavy clay soils of new subdivisions. It grows in either acid soils about pH 6.0 or neutral soils to about pH 7.5. Grows a medium rate of about 1.5 ft/yr as many coniferous trees. Its needles are much softer than Colorado Spruce, the most commonly planted conifer tree in the Midwest and Northeast for homeowners, and oftentimes is even more reliable by not getting Cytospora Canker Disease seriously that kills some of the spruce off, though I've seen some slowly decline and die off in landscapes too. It is not a native plant east of the Rocky Mountains for those who want native plants only, though it is American.
Very majestic trees. They tolerate hot dry summers and cold winters well. They are easy to transplant too. I transplanted a few a couple ...Read Moreyears ago and they are all doing great.
We purchased a 6' Douglas Fir as a live Christmas tree in 1999 and planted it directly after Christmas at the front of our yard in moist,...Read More well drained soil. It did wonderfully well until deer browsed it one year that we did not surround it with fencing. At the suggestion of one of our neighbors - a professor of agriculture, we did not trim away the lower branches that the deer had defoliated, and are trying to give them a chance to refoliate. The picture I submitted shows the branches approximately 3 years after the browsing. Needles are starting to come back, however, the process is very slow, and the tree does not have the beautiful pyramid shape it should. Only time will tell if it comes back completely. I was told that worst case, we can remove the browsed branches and just leave the longer trunk. Well, I guess it would make it easier to mow around!
The fir seems to do very well in it's location where it gets full sun but is shaded a little in the afternoon by other trees here in zone 5. The needles are soft, medium long and the cones that are produced will be useful in crafts. This tree is approximately 11 years old, is about 12 feet tall now, and has not produced cones yet. It is still a beautiful tree, and worth working with.
This Rocky Mountain Douglasfir is commonly sold at most nurseries in the Midwest and Northeastern US. It is a reliable tree that adapts w...Read More
Very majestic trees. They tolerate hot dry summers and cold winters well. They are easy to transplant too. I transplanted a few a couple ...Read More
I have 5 Douglas firs on my property. They are about 1 foot in height. They seem to be thriving up here in the High Desert (4,000ft).
We purchased a 6' Douglas Fir as a live Christmas tree in 1999 and planted it directly after Christmas at the front of our yard in moist,...Read More