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 and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our inventory on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see everything 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 offerings will generally have more herbaceous perennials, grasses, etc 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 what 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!
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…
Lovage
Lovage
Levisticum officinale
Lovage (which we have learned is also called 'Mountain Celery' and the wonderful 'Smellage') is a unique and under appreciated hardy perennial vegetable. We've found them to enjoy growing in more moist conditions, perhaps not full bog but pretty moist or slowly draining soil works well for them and full sun to part shade.
This is a plant with a powerfully robust Celery flavor, as in a good leaf or two will add immense flavor to an entire large soup! Eaten raw the leaves can be almost overwhelmingly flavorful with intense celery notes as the main sense you get. We appreciate them for their extremely flavorful leaves but also because they seem to be absolutely deer and rabbit resistant, grow deep and fleshy roots that access moisture and nutrients down below annual plants to offer to neighbors, provide large umbels of flowers mid-season to provide browse for predatory wasps and others and seem to have potential as nutrient accumulating chop and drop guild plants, helping to deepen and heal soils.
This can be a very long lived perennial, we have some in the same position for over a decade!
Size:
Up to 4-5' tall when in full flower, generally 2-3' in leaf.
Site Preference:
Enjoy full sun to part shade and rich soil, they are particularly good at handling somewhat difficult wet soil conditions where other perennials may be sad.
Hardiness:
Zones 4-8
