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…
Wapato
Wapato
Sagittaria Latifolia
Wapato, Duck Potato, Arrowhead, Indian Potato. Many names for a very beautiful and unique plant. This extremely hardy native is super competent in wet contexts. Growing in standing water, in the ponds edge, very muck soil, it can thrive in many moist conditions, even keeping up with cattails in the ponds edge! The striking arrow shaped leaves are thick and glossy and sturdy and the flower stalk with beautiful ancient looking flowers are all a treat. Meanwhile, down below the muck and moisture is a stunning tuber that forms that can be harvested and used as a staple root crop. We haven’t explored this aspect of the plant but appreciate so many elements of who they are, we’re sure we’d love the root too!
Please be aware Wapato is VERY competent at spreading over time and if you have very limited space or subtle and fragile water loving plants already Wapato may need to be in its own area. We love it at the edge of the pond and filling out wet areas that are hard to otherwise populate.
The tubers can be dug in the late winter/early spring to either expand and populate new areas or to explore eating this ancient food crop.
Your order gets you 3 tubers that can be planted in wet conditions.
Size:
3-4’ at peak flower, 1-2’ on average
Site Preference:
Very well adapted to wet conditions, Wapato can grow in shallow standing water, in the ponds edge or any soils that have very high clay and water retention.
Hardiness:
Zone 3 to 10 or so
