Bare Root Plants for Sale
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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!
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Northern Pecan
Northern Pecan
Carya illinoinensis
One of the largest trees we have growing at our original 6 acre site in Trumansburg NY is a Northern Pecan. Planted in 2009, it has a nearly 8" thick trunk and is quite tall already, easily outgrowing the Shagbark Hickory a squirrel planted the same year a few feet over.
We planted these robust, fast, beautiful trees for MANY reasons and will continue to do so. In our cooler central NY state context it is possible we'll have certain growing seasons where a late frost or early frost in fall make the crop not maturate, but most years this plant can mature their nuts which is the main reason to grow them. Their extremely strong wood can be used for projects in the future or firewood or for smokers, their giant leaves get raked in the fall to mulch nearby beds, their deep summer shade can provide comfort for structures, animals, even full sized homes, their wide and strong branches can be used for climbing or even considering vining crops to grow up them. So many reasons to plant these wonderful huge friends.
The nuts on Northern Pecan can be just slightly smaller than their southern counterparts but very worth planting for the future!
We offer air prune box 1st year seedlings with robust, fibrous and strong root systems and at least 8" of top growth (generally quite a bit more). Planting a few in an area for best pollination is worth considering if there is space. They are fast growing and vigorous in a good context but may need deer protection early on.
Size:
70’-100' and wide, strong, spreading branches. This can be one of the larger trees you set in motion in a life time.
Site Preference:
N. Pecan seems to like similar contexts to its cousin the Shagbark Hickory. Rich soils with ample moisture (bottom land and water adjacent in other words) seems to be their happy place, but they are most certainly tolerant of a wider range of conditions. They'd like a fairly strong amount of light.
Hardiness:
We can say with very good confidence that zone 5B is just fine for these trees. They are most likely quite a bit hardier vegatatively to colder contexts. The question is growing season length... The nuts take a long time to maturate so if you have a very late start to spring or early entry into winter the nuts may not form fully...
