Bare Root Plants for Sale
Thank you for your interest and happy growing!
PLEASE READ: If you are local or regional to the Finger Lakes area (able to pick up in person), feel free to reach out to hello@edibleacres.org with a clear wish list of plants as an alternative to ordering here and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our offerings on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see all plants as sold out, please make a note in your calendar to revisit at our next ‘opening’ and pick up some lovely plants!
Our Fall offerings tend to have higher numbers of trees, shrubs, cuttings and a medley of our abundant and Fall appropriate herbaceous perennials. Spring will generally have more herbaceous perennials and grasses, and a smaller number of trees and shrubs. We weight our inventory in large part based on seasonal appropriateness for establishment. We hope you understand and visit again if you don’t find the plants you are looking for this time.
If you are super eager to get plants now, we now have a Permaculture Nursery page that lists friends of ours with ethical and thoughtful growing practices. We strongly encourage you to check them out and get some awesome plants from them too!
Please be aware that some plants are considered ‘illegal’ in some states. It is possible that some of our plants are not allowed to be planted where you live. If you are in doubt, you can search the plant and your state and see if it they are prohibited or ‘illegal’ to plant and if so please don’t order them. Thanks.
TIP: Use the tags above to help filter our offerings by characteristic (ie. click on ‘fruit’ to find any fruit bearing plants we offer, etc.) As we add more and more it is a helpful way to find a plant to fit your goals…
Bamboo
Bamboo
Phyllostachys Spp.
Bamboo is perhaps one of the most useful plants on the face of the earth. From edible shoots in the spring, to containers for water and food, to tools, scaffolding, walls, roofing, wind breaks, firewood, charcoal, animal feed, erosion control, water filtration… The list can go on for days. Over the last 15 years we have collected over 10 varieties of Bamboo. Some are docile and polite clumping types that expand slowly over time but mainly stay where you ask them, some are running types that once up to speed can expand massively every year indefinitely. We are offering the later… Buyer beware!
There are a few types of Bamboo that are considered explicitly ‘illegal’ that we will not offer so we can maintain our good standing as a nursery. From our collection we have identified a variety that is legal to posses in NY state, does sucker and run and expand, is generally quite top hardy to our zone 5B winters, produces incredibly dense vegetation that is a resoundingly good at providing wind break and privacy and has canes that don’t get all that thick (generally 1-2” thick) but are amazingly useful as trellis material for annual vines and for protecting young trees when cut, dried, and stuck in a ring of about 10 stalks around a given tree. We have been told this type seems promising as an emergency winter feed source for ruminant animals, and we find the deer in our area leave it alone until late winter and then start enjoying, so this seems like it could be true. This is a great all around utility Bamboo, and is considered to be good eating quality if the early shoots are harvested at the right time. We lost the specific cultivar name a number of years ago but stand by it as a great ‘default’ bamboo that is a little bit thinner/smaller than some of the biggest, but really useful, beautiful and hardy.
Please Note: We do not know the legal status of Bamboo in every state, every county, etc. We encourage you to do your own research to decide if this plant is appropriate for where you live and do not order it if you don’t believe you should be growing it.
We see bamboo being sold for obscenely high prices on the internet and want to change that pattern. The way we are able to do this is by sending you incredibly alive and healthy roots that are ready to sprout and grow in your landscape but no above ground growth. We have propagated this way many times and it works great. Saves on shipping costs, materials, etc. and we can get you much more bamboo for the price! You may do well to pot them up at first to get them going or plant them out and water and weed until established. Bare root bamboo root sections are an extremely economical way to begin your bamboo adventure but require patience and a bit of time before they are really robust and tall and full. Expect minimal growth and development in year one and things taking hold year two onward!
Size:
The variety we are offering gets around 12-15’ tall in our landscape and spreads indefinitely. In warmer climates we can’t say how big they will grow, our cold winters keep them in check.
Site Preference:
Bamboo likes full sun, but we have them in partial shade and they do OK.
Hardiness:
Zone 5B for sure, perhaps a bit colder
Your order will provide you a very healthy, freshly dug section of root at least 6-8” long or longer
First photo depicts generic bamboo stand mid-season. Remaining photos show the bamboo we are offering at the end of a very very long and tough winter. Compact, super dense, not very large but very high utility.
