Your yard, replanted for the climate it is actually in.
Upload one photo of your yard. You get it back replanted with plants that fit the spot and the Front Range, plus the list of what went where. The first preview is free.
BeforeAfter
The free plant finder
500+ plants, each rated or sourced for this climate, filtered by what your yard is like.
Trees rated on the 2024 Front Range list; shrubs, groundcover, and perennials sourced from CSU Extension and Plant Select. The reasons are on every page.
Filter by water, sun, mature size, growth rate, fall color, dog safety, and whether it drops a mess on the driveway.
The verdicts
Every tree gets a verdict, and the verdict is not always nice.
The 228 trees in the finder, by their rating on the 2024 Front Range Tree Recommendation List.
One more tree is listed as having potential. A design never uses a Not Recommended tree.
The guides
What kills plants here, and what to do about it.
- HailWhich canopies shred and which shrug it off. Hail-tolerant trees
- ClayWhy the hole you dug is a bathtub. Why is my tree dying?
- DroughtWhat lives on natural precipitation. Low-water trees
- Late frostsWhen to plant so May does not undo April. Planting calendar
- BindweedWhy pulling it makes it worse. The bindweed guide
- Ash borerWhat to do about the ash you have. The ash guide
The data study
One in five city trees is on the Not Recommended list.
We scored the street-tree inventories of Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Longmont against the 2024 list. Ash is still everywhere. Denver's most-planted street trees:
Green is Recommended, rust is Not Recommended. Source: Denver public tree inventory scored against the 2024 Front Range Tree Recommendation List.
See your own yard replanted before you buy a single plant.
One photo in. A planted yard out, with every plant vouched for and the list of what went where. The first preview is free.