Grown Here at Home: Virginia Department of Forestry holds annual online seedling sale

CRIMORA, Va. (WDBJ) – It’s that point of 12 months. The Virginia Division of Forestry’s on-line seedling retailer is now open. They’re taking orders till April, however you’d higher act quick, as a result of they’ve already offered out of some species.

“Proper now we have now a dozen species we’re already offered out of. A few of these issues simply occur fast. Bushes are a sizzling commodity. Yearly we sit there and go, alright, Persimmons offered out in three days, you had 40,000 of them. What do you do subsequent 12 months? What we find yourself doing is we find yourself planting extra seed, rising extra seedlings, and as an alternative of promoting out in three days, it will likely be three days and two hours, or one thing like that,” defined Joshua McLaughlin, VDOF supervisor of Augusta Nursery.

This 12 months’s crop is nearly 65 p.c bigger than final 12 months’s – all due to folks throughout the Commonwealth who donated to final 12 months’s annual acorn assortment. If you donate acorns and purchase seedlings, you’re serving to to maintain the operation going.

“Seedling gross sales is what funds the nurseries. We’re not tax-supported in any respect, so if we need to maintain a great ship operating, we’ve bought to maintain it funded,” McLaughlin mentioned.

Click on right here to purchase seedlings. They are often ordered in portions starting from 5 to 25,000. You may get the seedlings shipped to you, or you’ll be able to decide them up on the Augusta Nursery. For those who’re tax-exempt, you’ll have to name to position your order.

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