Parks and Rec Month - City Arborist

City arborist Trent Bristol shows us what an arborist does for Herriman.

Stump Grinder

Herriman City arborist Trent Bristol demonstrates the City's stump grinder equipment.

Tree Time with Trent (October 2024)

Herriman City arborist Trent Bristol holds instructional classes about taking care of trees. 

2020 Arbor Day Video

Herriman City and arborist Trent Bristol created this video in place of the traditional Arbor Day elementary school presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Planting Widths of 3-5 feet

• Amur Maple Acer ginnala (tree form)
• Chitalpa Chitalpa x tashkentensis (tree form)
• Chinese Lilac Tree Syringa pekinensis
• Columnar English Oak Quercus robur fastigiata
• Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
• Golden Rain Tree Koelreuteria paniculata
• Hawthorn Crataegus spp. (thornless and flowering)
• Hedge Maple Acer campestre
• Hop Hornbeam Ostrya virginiana
• Japanese Tree Lilac Syringa reticulata
• Japanese Zelkova Zelkova serrata (City Sprite)
• Lacebark Elm Ulmus parvifolia
• Maackia Maackia amurensis
• Malus hybrid (fireblight-resistant varieties)
• Serviceberry Amelanchier x grandifolia Autumn Brilliance
• Tatarian Maple Acer tataricum (tree form)

Planting Widths of 5-10 feet

• Bur Oak Quercus macrocarpa
• Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
• Crimean Linden Tilia euchlora
• English Oak Quercus robur
• European Beech Fagus sylvatica
• Ginkgo Maidenhair Ginkgo biloba
• Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos (thornless varieties)
• Kentucky Coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus (fruitless)
• Littleleaf Linden Tilia cordata
• Norwegian Sunset/Urban Sunset Acer truncatum x platanoides
• Northern Pin Oak Quercus ellipsoidalis cultivars
• Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra
• Osage Orange Maclura pomifera (White Shield)
• Persian Parrotia Parrotia persica
• Silver Linden Tilia tomentosa cultivars
• Swamp Oak Quercus bicolor
• Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus
• Turkish Filbert Corylus colurna

Planting Widths od 10+ feet (i.e. open space)

• American Linden Tilia americana
• Buckeye Aesculus glabra
• Chinkapin Oak Quercus muehlenbergii
• Cornelian Cherry Dogwood Cornus mas
• European Beech Fagus sylvatica
• Horsechestnut, Red Aesculus x carnea
• Mimosa Albizia julibrissin
• Netleaf Hackberry Celtis reticulata
• Northern Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
• Red Mulberry Morus rubra (fruitless)
• Shumard Oak Quercus shumardii
• State Street Maple Acer miyabei
• Sensation Maple Acer negundo
• Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera
• Turkey Oak Quercus cerris
• White Mulberry Morus alba (fruitless)
• White Oak Quercus alba
• Yellowwood Cladrastis kentuckea
• ‘Colonial Spirit’ ‘Prairie Expedition’ Elm Ulmus americana (Survivors of Dutch Elm Disease)
• Ulmus hybrids (like ‘Frontier’ and ‘Accolade’)

Conifers

Conifers are best in groupings at development entrances, open spaces, and in non-traditional parking strips at least 20 feet wide.

• Arborvitae Thuja orientalis
• Austrian Pine Pinus nigra (cultivars for columnar and dwarf)
• Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum
• Bosnian Pine Pinus leucodermis (Heldrechii)
• Blue Atlas Cedar Cedrus atlantica Glauca
• Chinese Juniper Juniperus chinensis cultivars
• Deodar Cedar Cedrus deodara (Karl Fuchs, Kashmir, Shalimar)
• Eastern Red Cedar Juniperus virginiana
• Eastern White Pine Pinus strobus
• Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum
• Incense Cedar Calocedrus decurrens
• Pinyon Pine Pinus edulis
• Rocky Mountain Juniper Juniperus scopulorum
• Scotch Pine Pinus sylvestris (cultivars for columnar and dwarf)
• Vanderwolf Pine Pinus flexilis (Vanderwolf’s Pyramid)
• Weeping Alaska Cedar Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (Pendula)