Small Leaved Lime (Tilia cordata) Bare Root Tree Saplings

An avenue of mature Tilia cordata trees (small leafed Lime) with golden Autumn foliage

Lime - small leaved (Tilia cordata)

£2.29

10% off Orders over £1000+VAT

15% off Orders over £2000+VAT

Minimum order value (all plants) is £300+VAT

Free Delivery over £300+VAT excl Highlands and Islands

Please order plants in multiples of 25

Our small leaved lime trees (Tilia cordata) are

- Suitable as a woodland tree, urban tree or parkland tree

- Native but quite rare in Scotland

- Deciduous

- Safe to plant near livestock (non-toxic)

Grown on our farm in Herefordshire. Buy with confidence - read our customer reviews.

The specifications shown below are our normal range but we often have additional options. If there is something that you are looking for, it's often worth contacting us.

Please contact us if you would prefer to order on the phone or have any questions or to discuss a discount for larger quantities.

Our range of bare root smallleaved lime trees (Tilia cordata)

We grow Tilia cordata bare root trees from seed which is sown in spring and then the 1+0 specification trees are ready to be sold the following November through to April months, when they are 1 year old. In recent years there has been a really severe shortage of good quality Tilia cordata seed so if you require any tree saplings, please order well in advance (even a year in advance).

We always have several batches of seed of Tilia cordata including UK provenance and the highest quality imported seed so if the seed provenance is particularly important to you, please give us a call so that we can allocate plants from the most appropriate batch.

Lime (small leaved) (Tilia cordata) Summary

Tilia cordata is a large native tree with an oval crown, scented spring yellow flowers and is very good at supporting a wide range of wildlife, moth caterpillars, aphids, ladybirds, hoverflies, birds and bees. It copes with air pollution well and is often found in urban settings, avenues and parks as well as woodlands and although once dominant in many woodlands it is now rather rarer. It can be pollarded or pleached.

Soil and Situation

Best grown in deep, moist, fertile soil but can cope with much poorer soil conditions, including dry soil, but not waterlogged. They grow well in full sun or partial shade.

Leaves, flowers and fruit

The leaves are heart shaped (cordate) with a pointed tip, medium sized (up to 8cm), glossy green on top with a paler glaucous colour underneath and a finely serrated edge. The flowers are small but quite showy – greenish, yellow in colour and highly scented. Tilia cordata produces a huge amount of nectar, in mid-June to July coinciding with the peak activity period of social bees like honeybees and bunblebees. Pollinated flowers turn into small nut like fruits attached to brown semi transparent wings.

Eventual height and growth rate

This is a large tree, capable of reaching up to 40m and an average growth rate of about 30-40cm pa.

Also known as Linden or pry tree. Malvaceae family.

Free Delivery

For deliveries of orders over £300 + VAT, (which is our minimum order value) we have free delivery to all mainland areas nationwide. If you are in the Scottish Highlands or any of the Islands, please email us or call us and we will quote you a delivery charge which we will subsidise.

All orders are despatched on pallets and will be delivered to the kerbside. We will email you to tell you when your order has been despatched and that email will contain a link so that you can track your delivery.

You can request a specific delivery date when you place your order and we will do our very best to accommodate that date but cannot be held responsible if we do not meet it.

Collections from Ross-on-Wye

You can collect your plants by arrangement with our office team. Please ring us on 01989 552028 to agree a collection date. The postcode for collections is HR9 7TF.

As a trade nursery, we normally despatch stock unbagged (packed horizontally on pallets) but we can offer two bagging options.

Bagging Options

We have two options for despatching plants in bags (you do not need to have them bagged but it is advisable if there is any delay in planting and where you have large quantities, delay in planting some is inevitable).

- Very heavy duty black bags - normally used by farmers, landowners, landscapers etc

- Co-extruded bags which are white on the outside, to reflect sunlight, and black inside, to retain moisture on the roots - normally used by foresters.

In both cases, there is a considerable labour cost to us in putting stock into bags, and then the air in the bags takes up a considerable amount of space on the pallet which means that we get many fewer plants onto a pallet compared with unbagged stock eg for 1+0 seedlings instead of approx. 10,000 plants per pallet of unbagged stock, we'd only get approx. 5,000 plants per pallet if they are bagged. There's also a significant labour cost in putting plants into bags compared with loose packing on a pallet (which is the normal method for nursery to nursery sales). Given that we pay the delivery cost on most orders, supplying stock in bags is a significant extra cost for us for some customers and hence we make a modest charge.

You can specifically request black or white bags on the website after you add plants to your shopping basket. Here is a link to the page Bagging Service for bare root plants for farms and forestry – rjtreesandhedging. Please order the same quantity as the number of plants you are buying - the pricing for bagging is per plant rather than per bag.