Trees

Annuals
Trees are wonderful additions to Laramie landscapes, where it’s almost always sunny and windy! The trees listed below are known to do well in the semi-arid, cold (in the winter), windy plains of Wyoming.

• Kentucky Coffeetree – zone 4, nitrogen fixer, messy pods but nice foliage
  
• Peking Lilac – 15′-20′
  
• Japanese Lilac – 20′-30′ tall, zone 4
  
• Ginkgo – zone 3-4, trees come as males or females – males lack the sticky fruits the females have
  
• Bigtooth Maple – zone 3, multi-stemmed (shrublike) or single stemmed (treelike), lovely fall color, fewer issues of chlorosis (yellowing of leaves)
  
• Tatarian Maple “Hot Wings” – zone 2, bright pink seed pods (shown right)
  

• Scotch Pine – zone 3, 60-100′, exfoliating bark, similar in appearance to white Pine
  
• Three Leaf Sumac – waxy green leaves, low-grow approx. 2′ tall
  
• Additional Resources:
  • Landscaping: Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs: Download here
    
  • Landscaping: Recommended Trees for Wyoming: Download here
    
  • Recommended Trees and Shrubs for Laramie, Wyoming: Download here
    

Perennials
Laramie is a great place to grow perennials because they are hardier and require less fuss than most annuals. Wyoming has a wonderful diversity of native wildflowers that grow especially well in Laramie, since they are accustomed to the wind, sun and precipitation characteristics of this climate. Visit the UW Berry Center’s green roof or Wyoming Native Plant Society’s website to learn more.
Also, check out the Water-Wise Demonstration Garden Booklet or the Plants With Altitude: Regionally Native Plants for Wyoming Gardens – and pick some of these plants out for your own garden!

Perennials that grow well in Laramie include, but are not limited to:

• Bleeding heart
• Blue columbine
• Pasque flowers
• Artemesia (silver mound)
• Hollyhocks
• Iris
• Poppies
• Rudbeckia
  

• Shasta Daisy
• Wild rose
• Day lilies
• Delphiniums
• Dianthus
• Hostas
• Creeping Thyme