Lowe’s seems to have some decent boxed berry collections, especially blackberries ad blueberries. I haven’t bought a lot of these from them, but I did pick up an Anne raspberry from them about 3 years ago, and it’s still alive.
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In fairness you can easily plant 50 strawberry. It is not like a tree where it is just 1 and good for 20 feet on sat a standard tree. You can plant 50 in a small area.
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Curious if its regional. Mine has Ouachita and Ebony King only. Outside they have hundreds of Natchez. You are talking about the boxes with the bags and the spaghetti cane sticking out?
In my experience box stars are regional. I read someone say they they found a necta zee nectarine at Lowes once. My big box just has Elberta and I don’t think they have any nectarines.
Yes, the boxed ones sticking out the top.
At Lowe’s I’ve seen Natchez and Ouachita, maybe Chester blackberries, some grapes and rasps, strawbs like Earliglo and Ozark Beauty, even recall seeing a goji variety. But it changes year to year.
I’ve seen Ebony King and Ouachita at Walmart as a set. Also Jewel and some other black rasp as a set.
Based on my many misses with boxed berries, I’ve kinda been hesitant to try them anymore.
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Home Depot has a variety of trees in 5gal containers for $68. Some are quite tall. I got an 8 ft Elberta Peach. For Peaches they had Veteran, Elberata, and Red Haven. For Cherries they had Bing and Lapis.
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Too bad you don’t have places like here…little nurseries that have trees from McMinnville Tennessee…selling 15 or more varieties of apples in 3 gallon pots…some 6 to 8 feet tall for about 40 percent of your Home Depot pricing. ($15 to 30 dollars)
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Not much variety but fruit trees at Walmart are $29.
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Rural King added some indoor displays that had some good stuff/prices…
Everything $6.99
Fruit - Red/Purple/Yellow Rasps, Grapes, Blueberries some varieties ive not heard of. Also had Sequoia and Quinalt Strawbs in 10 packs.
Pollinators- 4 different butterfly bushes, sedums, forsythias, wisterias, and bee balms… probably 20 or so bushes that i dont remember.
Also had a full pallet of Elephant Ear bulbs and some other odds and ends.
Geez… I bought my Pink Lady and Italian Prune plum trees from Lowes just 3 years ago for $35 and the plum was 7’ tall and 1-1/2” caliper.
Aldi got in a couple of small shippers… Plants in cardboard box, roots in moist peat in a bag.
Blueberry- Jersey, O’Neil, Sharps and another i dont remember name.
Grapes- Catawba and Niagra i think.
Blackberry- Arapaho
Raspberry- Heritage
Sedum- Fall
Clematis- 4 different kinds.
$6.99 each
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I got a pink lady apple from Costco for 20 dollars. That was up from 17 or 18 dollars last year. The Arvada CO Home Depot had apples and other fruit trees for 42 dollars. I remember reading about bare root trees that were posted back in 2008 or 2010 and they thought 10 dollars was a lot back then. I have found deals online to be very nice sometimes. Somehow I got a Supreme sized bare root Seckle pear from Stark bros for 19 dollars online with shipping. If you buy in bulk shipping on places is helpful. While I did not get a discount on the items I bought from One Green World this year I got 6 or 7 trees shipped to me for 20 dollars shipping cost. That was a few dollars shipping per tree.
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I really like One Green World they are a small local nursery that does a lot online as well. Really cool place to visit. Nice helpful people.
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On my last trip to our local farm store, Wilco, to get a PTO shaft extension, I saw they had a Redlove apple tree for $20. It was in a pot, I assume a potted up bare root.
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thanks! I found redlove odysso 1gal in eugene for $20 and bought it. it’s on a secret rootstock but I’m putting it in a #25 pot so I don’t care
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Visited big blue Box store today. Left soon after and spent no money.
I visited KY last weekend and hit 3 of them on my way home. (they were near the Peddlers Malls). I also have 4 of them within a short distance of my home here.
In all honesty on the potted blackberry and raspberry plants, every store had almost totally different stock. One store had no blackberry or raspberry plants at all… Odd.
None had or had heard of honeyberry plants.
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Yeah, different clusters of stores have a different distribution center. I can drive to LaFollette or other east Tennessee store and get a different inventory. But, Corbin, London, Richmond have the same stuff…Somerset and Danville and Nicholasville and Lexington…sometimes different, sometimes not.
If I get to Clark County, I visit Rural King.
Honestly I am pretty disappointed in big box stores this year. Last year Costco had the same varieties of apples but had rainier and bing cherry trees as well as other trees. This year they had the apples that live in our zone but everything else was way out of our zone here. Home Depot had some multi grafted pears and apples but none were the varieties I wanted.
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Costco had Hass and Fuerte avocado trees for $22 a week ago. That was the only noteworthy deal I saw en masse. Otherwise it seems like we just need to be lucky and randomly come upon a good clearance deal.