Out-of-State Orders -- If you live outside Kentucky, please check with your home state forestry agency to determine if it has seedlings available. If it does not and you would like to order from the Kentucky Division of Forestry, contact the division at 800-866-0555 for additional shipping and handling costs for out-of-state shipments.

* Please note that out-of-state orders will not be accepted until Feb. 1 and all orders are subject to refusal.

Seedlings are available in bundles of 10 and 100 and average 12 to 18 inches in height and are ready for planting when you receive them.  Our seedlings are bare-rooted and can only be lifted from the seedling beds when they are dormant.  The lifting and shipping of the seedlings usually begins in late December and concludes when seedlings begin to leaf-out in April.  Several killing frosts initiate the seedling's dormancy and none will be lifted until they are fully dormant.  Once lifted, seedlings are treated with a hydrogel mixture that keeps the roots moist.  They are then bundled and kept in cold storage until they are shipped via UPS to your home.

Shortages in planting stock can occur after order processing begins so please submit your order as soon as possible. Orders are filled on a first-come, first-served basis until supplies are depleted.

You may receive free planning assistance for tree planting projects from the division by contacting the district office that serves your county.  

For information and photos about tree species available for this spring planting season, please click here.  For printable species-specific fact sheets, please click on the species name below.

Baldcypress	Eastern white pine	Loblolly pine
Shortleaf pine	Virginia pine	Black cherry
Gray dogwood	Flowering dogwood	Silky dogwood
Persimmon	Wild plum	Kentucky coffeetree
Black locust	Eastern redbud	Hazelnut
Shagbark hickory	Water hickory	Black oak
Black walnut	Bur oak	Cherrybark oak
Chestnut oak	Northern red oak	Nuttall oak
Overcup oak	Pecan	Pin oak
Sawtooth oak	Shumard oak	Southern red oak
Swamp chestnut oak	White oak	Willow oak
Green ash	River birch	Sycamore
White ash	Yellow-poplar

Though nature will reforest most areas on its own (regeneration), this process can take many years and may result in less-than-desirable species coming back. Tree planting not only saves the time that may be lost waiting for nature, but planting allows you to select the best species for a particular site and allows control of tree spacing for best tree growth and development. Control of spacing also makes necessary maintenance practices, such as weed control, much easier.