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…
Groundnut
Groundnut
Apios Americana
This is an exciting plant... This perennial vine comes out in the spring and finds whatever it can to climb. Puts out beautiful pea family leaves, and then some exquisite flowers that are really something to see. This is a nitrogen fixer and an underground runner. Interesting to design with, but be aware that it will slowly creep around the garden and pop up where you didn't expect. Better use is in the hedgerow or along a fence. In the garden it can sneak up and put the squeeze on your annuals when you least expect it!
Size:
Twining vine dies back each fall to the ground, but an wind up 12 or more feet around fences, other plants, etc. Can be a bit unruly so plant it where it can wind and grow!
Site Preference:
Wetter bottomlands, but a strong nitrogen fixer that can fit in any degraded soils or rich garden context too!
Hardiness:
Zone 3
