Although I adore beautiful avenues of cypress or lombardy poplars stretching into the distance, most places are not designed for them. From your description of the winds, you could plant a cypress, but it would need to be in a companion grouping with at least two other support trees. So, it would go on the far northeast side of the staging area, and then you would plant one sort of tall spreading evergreen (like a golden cedar) to the south and another (colorado blue spruce) to the west. That way, when a gale blows, that tree has others as backup. This is the forest-style planting.
Trees which grow in forests have less windfall because they have companions which help keep the roots interlocked and deep, and when they sway and bend, they are supported by each others' branches. When you take out trees in a forest, the remaining ones are much weaker than those that grow by themselves in a dale, and they tend to snap like matchsticks in a high wind. So, if you plant forest-style companion groves, don't take out any trees!
Another way to get trees to grow stronger, is to keep them topped and pruned.
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Date: 2011-08-25 07:10 pm (UTC)Trees which grow in forests have less windfall because they have companions which help keep the roots interlocked and deep, and when they sway and bend, they are supported by each others' branches. When you take out trees in a forest, the remaining ones are much weaker than those that grow by themselves in a dale, and they tend to snap like matchsticks in a high wind. So, if you plant forest-style companion groves, don't take out any trees!
Another way to get trees to grow stronger, is to keep them topped and pruned.