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…
Plum
Plum
Prunus Americana (and more)
We have a number of interesting Plums we work with in our landscapes and are excited to offer diverse seedlings into the world!
Our primary offering are native American Plum seedling trees. These are extremely hardy and vigorous growing seedlings from excellent parents. We identified healthy and well formed parent trees with abundant crops of small but compelling fruits and saved seed from them. The seedlings from these trees have very strong growth, good disease resistance and are fast! We’ve found Plum to be quite good at handling complex contexts in our landscape, dealing gracefully with shade and sun equally, somehow deflecting the interest of deer and rabbits and reliably reaching the canopy. A wonderful treat for wildlife and humans alike. Certainly not a giant thin skinned sweet plum like at the store but richly flavorful in a tart and wild way and very good at growing! You need a good number of these plants for good pollination and fruit set and as such we offer both individual as well as packs to help you establish some lovely bounty!
We also have seedlings grown from a very tasty golden Japanese plum called ‘Shiro’ plum. These are not grafts but actual seedlings from a good quality parent with delicious, sweet, large, thin skinned fruits. You’d need multiple for good pollination or another Japanese plum for strong fruit production.
Many years ago we got some unique plums from Oikos Tree Crops out in Michigan. In that planting we put in a type of plum they called ‘Dunbars Plum’. As far as we understand this is a self-fruitful plum that is a natural hybrid between wild native beach plums and native tree form American plums. The main tree we harvest from has no suckering habit, is upright and balanced and healthy and crops a lovely purple fruited crop with no pollen from other trees nearby! This is an extremely promising Plum and we’re thrilled to be able to offer healthy and strong seedlings of them.
Size:
Plums are considered trees but are more like large shrubs or semi-tree form. Can get 10-15’ tall or taller.
Site Preference:
Plums seem really tolerant of a very wide range of conditions. Normally best practice is full sun but we have some that are growing in some serious shade and doing OK. Our best producers have at least a decent amount of sun each day.
Hardiness:
American and Dunbars Plum should be able to handle down to Zone 3. Japanese plum is hardy to Zone 5 or even a little colder.
Easy Instructions on how to propagate Elderberry and other hardwood cuttings. This would work with the cuttings you get from us in the mail:
