Truckee- Trees

 Prefers moist soils. A small shrubby deciduous tree, it grows to 20 feet. Plant in part shade and deep water every 7-10 days.

A Sierra Nevada classic- with white bark, the fall colors of the Aspen can be added to your landscape in single or multi-stem options.

A great choice for color, chokecherry may be utilized as a screen or in mass plantings, being aware of its propensity for suckering and multiplying.

Showy white spring flowers are followed by large clusters of flame-red, berry-like fruit loved by birds. Likes acidic soil with good drainage, full sun to light shade. Grows to 10'–30'.

There are a variety of Maple trees that can add various hues to your landscape.

Vine Maples, Japanese Maples, and Red Maples are a few of our favorites that do well in our area. These usually prefer shadier settings.

Birch is tolerant of harsh conditions, putting up with any kind of soil and any aspect, whether sheltered or exposed. 

These pines are a great year round screening option that are low maintenance and native to the region. 

The blue spruce is a species of spruce tree. It is native to North America, and is found in growing zones 1 through 7, a great evergreen option for color.

A tree native to America, the  Cedar grows in zones 5 through 8, particularly in   Oregon and California. Some of these trees have made their ways into western Nevada, as well.

Firs can be distinguished from other members of the pine family by the way in which their needle-like leaves are attached singly to the branches with a base resembling a suction cup, and by their cones, which stand upright on the branches.

Moisture-loving plants that are native to temperate and cold regions in the Northern Hemisphere. 

Ninebark is a flowering shrub with four-season interest. This tough bush offers foliage in a variety of colors, as well as flowers that attract pollinators. 

Shasta daisies tend to bloom in clumps from 2 to 3 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet wide. 

Like clockwork, Shasta daisies return every spring or early summer and bloom until early fall. 

Daylilies are perennial plants, whose  flowers typically last about a day. The flowers of most species open in early morning and wither during the following night, possibly replaced by another one on the same scape the next day.

Irises are perennial plants, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises) or, in drier climates, from bulbs (bulbous irises). 

Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, with nearly 1000 species. One of several genera commonly referred to as sage.

 Lupins have soft green to grey-green leaves which may be coated in silvery hairs, often densely so.  The flower shape has inspired common names such as bluebonnets and quaker bonnets. 

Penstemon  the beardtongues, is a large genus of roughly 250 species of flowering plants.  It is the largest genus of flowering plants endemic to North America

Perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals  of their flowers.

Closely related to Potentilla and Fragaria. They produce flowers on wiry stalks, in shades of white, red, yellow, and orange, in midsummer. Geum species are evergreen except where winter temperatures drop below 0 °F 

Yarrow is a perennial plant that produces one to several stems, and has a spreading growth form. Leaves are evenly distributed along the stem, with the leaves near the middle and bottom of the stem being the largest.

The flowers have five petals and are coloured white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged.