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For the 2024 season potted seedling varieties available include Dogwood, Redbud, Willow Oak, Live Oak, Bald Cypress, Leyland Cypress, Black Walnut, Yellow Poplar, White Pine, Shortleaf Pine Red Cedar, Sycamore, and Willow Oak (scroll down for more info). All seedlings are in 1 to 3 gallon pots and prices vary from $15 to $25 with bulk pricing available. Since we are still in construction, sales are done by appointment. Please call or text Jeff at 864-334-6035, or email jeff@oldtrucktreefarm.com.
Leyland Cypress
Leyland cypress trees grow in a pyramidal, conical shape with flattened sprays of bluish-green, needled leaves.
They grow to an impressive height of 40–60 feet if not pruned down, with a spread of 15–20 feet. Growing 3 feet or more by their second year, Leyland cypress trees achieve this great height quickly.
Flowering Dogwood
Sometimes considered the most spectacular of the native, flowering trees, flowering dogwood is a 20-40 ft., sometimes taller, single- or multi-trunked tree with a spreading crown and long-lasting, showy, white and pink spring blooms. A lovely, small, flowering tree with short trunk and crown of spreading or nearly horizontal branches. Graceful, horizontal-tiered branching; red fruits; and scarlet-red fall foliage are other landscape attributes. Flowering dogwood is deciduous.
Flowering Dogwood is one of the most beautiful eastern North American trees with showy early spring flowers, red fruit, and scarlet autumn foliage. The hard wood is extremely shock-resistant and useful for making weaving-shuttles. It is also made into spools, small pulleys, mallet heads, and jeweler's blocks. Native Americans used the aromatic bark and roots as a remedy for malaria and extracted a red dye from the roots.
Eastern Redbud
Redbud is a 15-30 ft. tree with one to several picturesque, maroon-purple trunks and a wide, umbrella-like crown. Its pink flowers, borne in tight clusters along the stems and branches before new leaves appear, create a showy spring display. Smooth, heart-shaped, deciduous foliage does not have significant fall color. Trees from the southern part of the species’ range have smaller, glossier leaves and often a more compact form. Stunning tiny pink flower clusters cover the entire tree in Spring.
Redbud is a 15-30 ft. tree with one to several picturesque, maroon-purple trunks and a wide, umbrella-like crown. Its pink flowers, borne in tight clusters along the stems and branches before new leaves appear, create a showy spring display. Smooth, heart-shaped, deciduous foliage does not have significant fall color. Trees from the southern part of the species’ range have smaller, glossier leaves and often a more compact form. Stunning tiny pink flower clusters cover the entire tree in Spring.
Yellow Popular
One of the largest hardwoods, yellow poplar grows to be 200 feet tall with a diameter of 4 to 6 feet or more, branching off up to 60 to 70 feet above the ground. This massive, Appalachian native has solitary flowers that are yellowish green with a reddish-orange band wrapping the base of the flower. The seeds from these flowers feed deer and squirrels in the early fall and midwinter.
One of the largest hardwoods, yellow poplar grows to be 200 feet tall with a diameter of 4 to 6 feet or more, branching off up to 60 to 70 feet above the ground. This massive, Appalachian native has solitary flowers that are yellowish green with a reddish-orange band wrapping the base of the flower. The seeds from these flowers feed deer and squirrels in the early fall and midwinter.
Bald Cypress (Swamp Cypress)
This stately conifer, native to the Midwest, is often found in groupings in parks and larger spaces, along streets, and around lakes. Unlike most cone-bearing trees, bald-cypress loses its needles each winter and grows a new set in spring. The russet-red fall color of its lacy needles is one of its outstanding characteristics. Hardy and tough, this tree will adapt to a wide range of soil types, whether wet, dry, or swampy.
This stately conifer, native to the Midwest, is often found in groupings in parks and larger spaces, along streets, and around lakes. Unlike most cone-bearing trees, bald-cypress loses its needles each winter and grows a new set in spring. The russet-red fall color of its lacy needles is one of its outstanding characteristics. Hardy and tough, this tree will adapt to a wide range of soil types, whether wet, dry, or swampy.
Eastern Red Cedar
Evergreen, aromatic tree with trunk often angled and buttressed at base and narrow, compact, columnar crown; sometimes becoming broad and irregular. Pyramidal when young, Eastern Red Cedar mature form is quite variable. This evergreen usually grows 30-40 ft. but can reach 90 ft. Fragrant, scale-like foliage can be coarse or fine-cut, and varies in color from gray-green to blue-green to light- or dark-green. All colors tend to brown in winter. Pale blue fruits occur on female plants. Soft, silvery bark covers the single trunk.
Evergreen, aromatic tree with trunk often angled and buttressed at base and narrow, compact, columnar crown; sometimes becoming broad and irregular. Pyramidal when young, Eastern Red Cedar mature form is quite variable. This evergreen usually grows 30-40 ft. but can reach 90 ft. Fragrant, scale-like foliage can be coarse or fine-cut, and varies in color from gray-green to blue-green to light- or dark-green. All colors tend to brown in winter. Pale blue fruits occur on female plants. Soft, silvery bark covers the single trunk.
Live Oak
Southern live oaks are majestic trees that are emblems of the South. When given enough room to grow, their sweeping limbs plunge toward the ground before shooting upward, creating an impressive array of branches. Crowns of the largest southern live oaks reach diameters of 150 feet (45.7 meters)—nearly large enough to encompass half of a football field. On average, though, the crown spread is 80 feet (24 meters) and the height is 50 feet (15 meters). Branches usually stem from a single trunk, which can grow to five or six feet (1.5 to 1.8 meters) in diameter.
Unlike most oak trees, which are deciduous, southern live oaks are nearly evergreen. They replace their leaves over a short period of several weeks in the spring. Sweet, tapered acorns produced by the trees are eaten by birds and mammals, including sapsuckers, mallards, wild turkeys, squirrels, black bears, and deer. The threatened Florida scrub jay relies on the scrub form of the southern live oak for nesting. Other birds make use of the moss that frequently hangs from the tree branches to construct nests.
Pin Oak
Pin oak is a medium-sized, deciduous tree in the Fagaceae (beech) family and is one of the faster-growing red oaks, generally reaching a height of 50 to 70 feet with a trunk about 3 feet in diameter. Pin oak prefers medium to wet, loamy, acidic soils and full sun. It has a more slender and graceful appearance than some oaks. The fall foliage is orange, or bronze to red. This oak won’t begin producing acorns until around 15 to 20 years old.
Pin oak is very popular and frequently used as a shade tree for home landscapes, urban streets, parks, and woodland gardens. It is tolerant of many soil conditions, heat, and air pollution, but it is toxic to horses.
Willow Oak
Willow Oak is a medium to large-size and fast-growing deciduous tree in the Fagaceae family and the red oak group. It may grow 40 to 75 feet tall and 25 to 50 feet wide and has an oval to rounded crown. It can reach up to 100 feet tall and is long-lived. In North Carolina, it can be found in all areas of the state. It has a nice balanced, rounded form and fine texture that has made it a popular shade tree for the landscape. Willow Oak starts producing acorns at the age of 15 to 20 years. This tree is a high-value wildlife tree for birds and mammals.
Willow Oak is a medium to large-size and fast-growing deciduous tree in the Fagaceae family and the red oak group. It may grow 40 to 75 feet tall and 25 to 50 feet wide and has an oval to rounded crown. It can reach up to 100 feet tall and is long-lived. In North Carolina, it can be found in all areas of the state. It has a nice balanced, rounded form and fine texture that has made it a popular shade tree for the landscape. Willow Oak starts producing acorns at the age of 15 to 20 years. This tree is a high-value wildlife tree for birds and mammals.
Sycamore
The Sycamore Tree provides good shade in the Summer and is highly recommended to be planted in cities, along streets. The tree grows into a huge shade tree that is very picturesque, rugged and is very tolerant of varying soil and growing conditions. When planted as an isolated specimen tree in a park or near your home, the Sycamore tree presents a regular, rounded crown. The Sycamore tree grows well in dry areas and can endure droughts easily, and surprisingly these trees are found growing near woods in wetlands. The Sycamore tree has colorful bark and is long lived, and it is often planted in rows along highways.
The Sycamore Tree provides good shade in the Summer and is highly recommended to be planted in cities, along streets. The tree grows into a huge shade tree that is very picturesque, rugged and is very tolerant of varying soil and growing conditions. When planted as an isolated specimen tree in a park or near your home, the Sycamore tree presents a regular, rounded crown. The Sycamore tree grows well in dry areas and can endure droughts easily, and surprisingly these trees are found growing near woods in wetlands. The Sycamore tree has colorful bark and is long lived, and it is often planted in rows along highways.
Black Walnut
A large deciduous tree prized for its dark brown hardwood. Due to its economic value, the number of large individuals remaining in the landscape is extremely low. Black Walnut has long compound leaves that hold up to 23 leaflets arranged opposite each other and often lacking a leaflet at the apex. Bark is deeply ridged well out onto the branches. Fall color is bright yellow and leaf scars are heart shaped with 3 dots or “bundle scars” on each point. Fruits conspicuous green balls that are held from midsummer well into the fall exhibiting various stages of rot. Both fruits and leaves have a spicy citrus smell when crushed or scraped.
A large deciduous tree prized for its dark brown hardwood. Due to its economic value, the number of large individuals remaining in the landscape is extremely low. Black Walnut has long compound leaves that hold up to 23 leaflets arranged opposite each other and often lacking a leaflet at the apex. Bark is deeply ridged well out onto the branches. Fall color is bright yellow and leaf scars are heart shaped with 3 dots or “bundle scars” on each point. Fruits conspicuous green balls that are held from midsummer well into the fall exhibiting various stages of rot. Both fruits and leaves have a spicy citrus smell when crushed or scraped.
White Pine
Known as the "King of the North Woods" this is by far the most ornamental of our native evergreens. With foliage that is light, delicate, and silvery-green. It has a fast growth rate, with height increases of up to 24" per year. This Pine will tolerate filtered sun and sandy soils and provide nesting sites for many birds including; woodpeckers, common grackles, mourning doves, chickadees, and nuthatches.
Known as the "King of the North Woods" this is by far the most ornamental of our native evergreens. With foliage that is light, delicate, and silvery-green. It has a fast growth rate, with height increases of up to 24" per year. This Pine will tolerate filtered sun and sandy soils and provide nesting sites for many birds including; woodpeckers, common grackles, mourning doves, chickadees, and nuthatches.
Shortleaf Pine
The most widely distributed of the southern yellow pines, a large tree with broad, open crown. This is a 50-100 ft., sometimes taller, pine with short, spreading branches forming a pyramidal crown that opens with age. Leaves 2(-3) per fascicle, bright green, 3 to 5 in. Trunks of larger trees have broad, flat, reddish-brown plates.
Shortleaf Pine is native in 21 southeastern states. An important timber species, producing lumber for construction, millwork, and many other uses, as well as plywood and veneer for containers. This and other southern pines are the major native pulpwoods and leading woods in production of barrels. Seedlings and small trees will sprout after fire damage or injury.
Longleaf Pine
Longleaf pine is an evergreen conifer that got its common name for having the longest leaves of the eastern pine species. The needlelike leaves, which come in bundles of three, can grow up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) long. Mature trees stand 80 to 100 feet (24 to 30 meters) tall. The single trunk, which is covered in thick, scaly bark, reaches up to three feet (0.9 meters) in diameter. The trees naturally prune their lower branches and grow almost perfectly straight.
Longleaf pine is an evergreen conifer that got its common name for having the longest leaves of the eastern pine species. The needlelike leaves, which come in bundles of three, can grow up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) long. Mature trees stand 80 to 100 feet (24 to 30 meters) tall. The single trunk, which is covered in thick, scaly bark, reaches up to three feet (0.9 meters) in diameter. The trees naturally prune their lower branches and grow almost perfectly straight.
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