Statewide Iowa — The Iowa DNR’s State Forest Nursery will start selling seedlings next week and many thousands of Iowans are expected to place orders.
Nursery manager Pat Griffin says they had been averaging about 600- or 700-thousand seedlings sold each year, and then we had a game-changing derecho in August of 2020.
Seedlings can be ordered from the nursery in Ames starting on Thursday. They’re sold “bare-root” without a container, packaged in bundles of 25 seedlings inside sealed, labeled plastic bags.
Those varieties include 23 species of native hardwoods, eight evergreen species and more than a dozen smaller trees and shrubs.
Prices range from 70-cents to $1.20 per seedling. Griffin says they do NOT need to be taken indoors or planted in pots for later transplanting.
Seedling orders are taken September 1st through May 30th and customers need to specify when ordering when they want delivery. Orders can be placed by phone at 800-865-2477 and online at http://nursery.iowadnr.gov/
