For the second year in a row, the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery will be selling tree seedlings online.
The nursery offers 50 species of bare-root seedlings for sale each year, and they usually get several thousand orders.
Due to the rainy summer, they have a limited supply of some popular trees, including several Christmas tree species.
The nursery manager said they are excited to offer winter berry holly this year, along with another seedling.
“Species like red maple, which is typically a slow-growing seedling. We were able to have that available this year. And we were also able to increase the amount of pollinator packages that we provide, which is, you know, it’s one of our most popular package packages that we sell,” said Billy Kunelius, manager of the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery.
The nursery has a new website, BuyNHSeedlings.com, which looks similar to the print catalog the department issues. More than 50 species are available for sale, including balsam fir, red oak, white spruce, black walnut seedlings, hazelnut, and ninebark shrubs.
During the past decade, the nursery received around 1,000 orders each year. Last year, orders increased to 2,500.
“Sales at the N.H. State Forest Nursery have increased dramatically over the last several years,” N.H. Division of Forests and Lands’ Chief of Forest Management Will Guinn said. “Much of this is due to a renewed interest in the outdoors as a result of the pandemic, as well as a desire to help mitigate climate change through planting trees to sequester and store carbon.”
Source : WMUR
