Popular species of evergreen plug seedlings pictured above, click to enlarge
Closed for the winter! The following evergreen plug seedlings will be for sale in mid Jan and shipping in early March 2025, unless noted otherwise:
• Austrian Pine Plug Seedlings – sold out till Fall 2025 or later, see evergreen seedlings
• Balsam Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Black Hills Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Black Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Canaan Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Colorado Blue Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Concolor Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, see evergreen seedlings, evergreen transplants
• Douglas Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Eastern Red Cedar Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Fraser Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Meyer Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Fall 2025, no other options available at this time
• Noble Fir Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Norway Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Ponderosa Pine Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Red Pine Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Serbian Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Tamarack Larch Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Variety Packs of Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• Western Red Cedar Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• White Cedar Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• White Pine Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
• White Spruce Plug Seedlings – sold out till Spring 2025, no other options available at this time
Confused about species? Try our Evergreen Seedling Buyer’s Guide >>
Because they arrive “already planted” so to speak, evergreen plug seedlings are safe to plant until early June in most northern locations, or until daytime temperatures are consistently into the upper 70’s.
Need a later ship date?
Order when available to reserve trees in your name, and then reply to your receipt or contact us with your requested ship date and we’ll schedule accordingly.
What are evergreen plug seedlings?
Evergreen plug seedlings [a.k.a. evergreen seedling plugs] are germinated from seed in trays [not in the ground], each tray containing 198 cigar-shaped cells, each cell filled with peat moss, soil and other highly beneficial organic material. Evergreen seedling plugs are ready to ship when the soil in each cell has been taken over and “plugged” by the seedling’s roots. Plug seedlings are often transplanted by wholesalers for field growing because they are technically not dug up like “bare root” trees, leaving their root systems almost completely undisturbed.
With this advantage, they can begin putting out new root growth and new top growth fairly quickly once planted. Plug seedlings experience much less stress during shipping and transplanting than bare root trees often do, and can be planted much earlier and later in the season than bare root trees.
Plant In Record Time:
You can plant evergreen plug seedlings faster and with less effort than any traditional "bare root" evergreen seedling or transplant, upwards of 50 to 100 per hour without breaking your back, using a cordless drill and this garden auger. Click the thumbnail to watch on YouTube. This steel garden auger is FREE with purchase of 200 or more plug seedlings, or just $17.00 [our cost] with any tree purchase, or $37.00 with no tree purchase, shipped anywhere in the USA.Individual Packaging Options:
Plug seedlings are grouped in bundles or bags for shipping, but we offer individual plastic packaging, eco-friendly packaging, and cotton gift bag packaging for all sizes of plug seedlings, sold separately in matching quantities. These individual packaging services are available for plug seedlings only.
Our plug seedling sizes can range widely, from 4 to 20 inches [not including roots] depending on the species, but most of our plug seedlings average 6 to 14 inches. Please refer to the exact sizing info on each tree’s specific page.
What are the advantages of evergreen plug seedlings?
Winter shipments: Plug seedlings can be shipped from our site in MI at nearly any time of year, such as before the ground has thawed. Our bare root shipping season cannot start until the ground is thawed, but we can bring trays of plug seedlings indoors to thaw for shipment as wedding seedlings, corporate events or to southern states…pretty much whenever you like.
Late Spring/Summer shipments: Evergreen plug seedlings can be shipped long after they have broken bud or have begun candling [a time when bare root evergreens would die if dug and shipped]. At this time of year we generally pack them with their tender new top growth exposed to the open air inside the box, thus only temporarily interrupting their daily diet of sunlight and allowing them to pull moisture from their root plug and transpire it into the open air to keep cool. They actually keep growing during transit and keep their vitality much longer than bare root. This means plug seedlings can safely be shipped and planted even in June and even July, long after the traditional bare root season is done, because they are actually already planted when you open the box!
Undisturbed root systems: Evergreen plug seedlings by their very nature are shipped with their root systems almost perfectly undisturbed and undamaged, unlike traditional bare root, because they literally pop out of the trays with virtually no stress or damage to the root system. Because of this undisturbed root system, they experience far less “transplant shock” during extraction/sorting/packing/shipping than bare root, which allows them to put on more growth than bare root in the same amount of time.
Super fast planting: And perhaps the most important advantage of all from your point of view, plug seedlings are just jaw droppingly fast and easy to plant provided that you have an old 1 inch drill bit and a cordless drill. For many people, the amount of time and backbreaking work saved using this planting method [as shown in our plug seedling video on YouTube] often outweighs the lower cost of bare root seedlings.
See Also:
Individual Plastic Packaging [available for ALL trees]
Individual Gift Bag Packaging [available for ALL trees]
Individual Eco Packaging [available for plug seedlings only]
Custom Laser Cut Pendants [seedlings and packaging sold separately]
Just For Fun
A promotional campaign by Hanes, using our evergreen plug seedlings in the product photos…click to enlarge. Pretty cool.
