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…
Honeyberry / Haskap
Honeyberry / Haskap
Lonicera Caerulea
Honeyberry or Haskap is a wonderful fruit for colder climates. Considered some of the most cold hardy shrubs that bear fruit that can be grown, they are amazing for our Northern friends and for people with colder micro-climates. Some varieties are hardy to -40F/-40C!!! In our central New York context we find that our honeyberry plants enjoy some shade cast from mid day onward to reduce heat stress on these cold tolerant friends.
The Honeyberry may be the first fruit of the season. Blueberry colored fruits with a tart and tangy flavor and intense blue/purple color are borne on easy to harvest thorn free stems. These shrubs naturally grow into dense forms that require minimal pruning for the most part. These tart treats start ripening before some of the earliest Strawberries. We’ve learned over the years that wild birds find them absolutely irresistible so you may need to over plant or plant near a favorite cat hang out or consider netting in the years to come. Or, do what we do and eat a bunch as fast as we can and then enjoy seeing the birds get pure pleasure in the landscape!
NOTE: you need multiple plants for good fruit set. Our Hybrid seedlings are each unique so 2 or more will pollinate each other. ‘Boreal Beauty’ will pollinate with ‘ Boreal Beast’ and ‘Tundra’ will pollinate with ‘Aurora’. We offer a ‘diversity pack’ which has 3 mixed plants for great pollination (they will not be labeled, they will be communally wrapped as ‘diversity honeyberry’ and a great open way to name them yourself or use it as a breeding starting point!
Our Honeyberry plants are at least 8” tall with strong root systems, many are larger. Some may be able to produce a small crop in year one in your garden!
Size:
Honeyberry don’t get very large. Some plants will top out at 3-4’ tall, some closer to 5-6’
Site Preference:
These cold hardy plants appreciate cooler micro climates like as an understory to orchard context trees or in areas that get shade from mid-day onward in temperate to warmer climates. In very cold climates they can be grown in full sun.
Hardiness:
Zone 2 and topping out in Zone 7 or Zone 8. These are not great plants for hot/dry climates
Easy Instructions on how to propagate Elderberry and other hardwood cuttings. This would work with the cuttings you get from us in the mail:
