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!
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 is prohibited or ‘illegal’ to plant and if so please don’t order it. 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…
Thimbleberry
Thimbleberry
‘Purple Flowering Raspberry’ Rubus Odoratus
Thimbleberries are a native plant similar to a raspberry, but quite unique. You can find them growing in the wild, in shady places, sometimes on cliff edges! Thornless canes with very ‘sugar maple’ looking leaves (spot on resemblance). They make lovely light purple flowers that transform into dark purple fruits with deep, complex flavors. Not a heavy cropping plant, but so unique and special it belongs in the shady corners of any good forest garden! We’ve seen some fruit production on canes in nearly complete shade.
Size:
Between 3’ to 4’ on average
Site Preference:
One of the most shade tolerant fruiting crops we know of. Right at home in the woods, or deep in the hedgerow. Seems to like rich soils.
Hardiness:
Zone 3
Your order will provide you with a well rooted 2nd year plant with new growing buds ready to fill out nicely within a year or two. They are trimmed back to reduce shipping costs, and grow very well from the ground.
