Native evergreens aren't heavy feeders. Too much fertilizer can lead to pest problems. Don't use a lawn-type fertilizer that contains weed killer. Let's take a closer look at the most popular evergreens. A slow grower, it is a small pine native in Colorado to drier regions up to 7000 feet.
Pinions tolerate drought and alkaline soil, but prefer loose, well-drained soils.
They won't appreciate typical Front Range clay. A pinion's worse-case scenario is to be transplanted into a regularly watered lawn. If such a tree survives transplanting, it soon will become stressed and susceptible to insects and diseases. Pine tip moth larvae also tunnel in and hollow out and destroy new growth tips. Urban pinions, incidentally, rarely form nuts.