Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) bare root tree saplings

Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis)

£0.89

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Please Order stock in multiples of 25

Free Delivery over £300+VAT excl Highlands and Islands

Minimum Order Value £300+VAT

- Suitable as a woodland tree (especially in forestry plantations)

- Non-native

- Evergreen

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Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) Summary

Sitka Spruce makes up about half of all commercial forestry plantations in the UK. It’s very quick to mature (about 30 years whereas an Oak tree will be closer to 100 years). It’s a relatively new introduction to Britain (from Sitka in Alaska) less than 200 years ago. It is the most important building and construction timber in Europe and is used for making flooring, joinery, plywood, pallets and fencing amongst many other construction applications. It’s also used in making musical instruments as it has regular knot-free rings which makes it an excellent conductor of sound.

Soil and Situation

Sitka spruce performs well on damp, deep, moist, well drained, peaty soils, but it will still grow fast on poor soils. It is commonly found in in western elevated sites in Scotland, Wales and to a lesser degree in England.

Leaves, Flowers and Fruit

Flattened needles are evergreen, straight and surprisingly prickly. It has male and female flowers on the same tree. The female flowers develop into cones which are pale cream, turning light brown and the seeds are dispersed by wind.

Eventual height and growth rate

Sitka Spruce is a very tall tree, one of the largest conifers in the world. It would normally reach about 50m but can be up to 100m. It is very fast growing – about 1.5m pa.

Pinacaea 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.