Alamosa District
Seedling Tree Program
The Alamosa District sells low cost, high quality seedling trees and shrubs each year. The seedlings are available to landowners with two or more acres who wish to plant a windbreak or shelterbelt, or for purposes of reforestation, erosion control, visual screen or noise barriers.
All seedlings are grown in our nursery in Fort Collins and are delivered to Alamosa in April. If you want more information about this program, please call our office at (719) 587-0915.
If you forget to place your order this year, contact us at (719) 587-0915! We will have a supply of extra trees and shrubs available for sale in the spring on a first-come basis.
Recommended Trees & Shrubs for the San Luis Valley
The most popular shrubs native to Colorado and the valley are: chokecherry, sumac, sand cherry, buffaloberry, woods rose, golden currant and New Mexican forestiera.
In addition, caragana, sumac and four-wing saltbush are excellent for drought resistance and cold hardiness. If you have alkaline soils, caragana, lilac, buffaloberry, woods rose, New Mexican forestiera and four-wing saltbush are good choices.
Trees native to the valley are: narrowleaf cottonwood and, in higher elevations, aspen, Colorado blue spruce, Douglas-fir, Engelman spruce, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, Rocky Mountain juniper, white fir, bristlecone pine and limber pine.
If you want to plant a windbreak in the valley, the Siberian elm and Rocky Mountain juniper are excellent for drought resistance, cold hardiness and alkali tolerance. The narrowleaf cottonwood and golden willow require more water, but also do well in alkaline soils and are cold hardy.
For more information on the recommended trees & shrubs listed above, please refer to the CSFS Nursery Buyer's Guide. (1.9 MB PDF)
2012 Alamosa District Application for Seedling Trees
To order seedling trees, please download our order form (585 KB PDF) and return to the Alamosa District. The deadline to order seedling trees is April 2, 2012.
Products Available from the Alamosa District
| Fertilizer Tablets 20% nitrogen, 10% phosphorous & 5% potassium. (Packaged in bags of 50) |
$8.50/bag |
| Polymer Soil Additive (8 oz bag - will do more than 100 trees) | $5.75/bag |
| Slurry Polymer (8 oz bag) | $5.75/bag |
| Tree Guard with Stakes (24" high) | $1.00 each |
| Tree Shade (sun screen) with wickets | 75 cents each |
| Weed Barrier 300 x 6 roll | $135.00/roll |