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…
Pomegranate
Pomegranate
Punica Granatum
Our friends at ortgardens.com shared two very interesting plants with us a number of years ago. ‘Salavatski’ and ‘Kazake’ Russian Pomegrantes were offered to us and we thought we’d give them a try. We planted them in our attached, un-heated greenhouse associated with our home and 5 years later they have survived with no winter damage each winter with just a single pane of glass surrounding the structure. We suspect they experienced as low as 0F or even colder in that space with no tip die back or damage. We suspect in our climate if they were planted in the garden they could die to the ground most winters but come back just like a very hardy Fig.
Our attached greenhouse doesn’t get enough light to promote strong flowering and fruiting so we’ve yet to try these remarkably hardy fruits but have been thrilled with how easy to propagate they have been, how blemish and disease free they have been and how readily they grow in nursery beds, so we’ve been ramping up their numbers and can now offer them for folks to try! If you are Zone 6 or warmer they should be pretty solid even outside with a little protection, much colder and they might be more appropriate in a pot to bring in.
We now have them in a full sun high tunnel and look forward to actually trying the highly regarded fruit soon, but are happy to be able to offer these fast growing and ruggedly promising special beings.
Both varieties are documented as self-fertile, but having both may help promote better fruiting in them.
We are offering robustly well rooted 1st year cuttings rooted on bottom heat late winter and grown out for the season. Plants are at least 8-12” tall and ready for establishment. In warmer climates it is reasonable to simply plant outside, in colder climates we encourage heeling them in a sheltered spot for the winter with the stems buried under leaves/mulch and then planted out in the spring. Experiment!
Size:
Our plants want to get taller than 7’ and we’ve ready 10’ or more is quite common. The plants are expansive and a little floppy, not unlike a big Forsythia.
Site Preference:
Pomegranates are considered to be extremely heat and dry tolerant, and we’ve seen them coast through very hot moments in the summer. Full sun seems ideal and well drained soil seems important.
Hardiness:
There are various reports of hardiness with these plants but notes of 0F seems true to us, but ideally they’d experience no colder than 5 or 10F if planted outside without protection.
Easy Instructions on how to propagate Elderberry and other hardwood cuttings. This would work with the cuttings you get from us in the mail:
