Large Stock Trees for Private Lands – Spring 2024

The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) offers a large stock tree planting program and a tree seedling planting program for landowners with a minimum of 1 hectare (2.5 acres) within the Upper Thames River watershed.

Planting projects include windbreaks, retiring highly erodible land, treed buffer strips along watercourses, and areas of your property where you would like to add diversity and create habitat.

Trees purchased through this program may be planted through the UTRCA’s full planting service or by the landowner. See below for details on both programs.

Ball and burlap trees

Choose from a variety of coniferous and deciduous trees and wildlife shrubs. Species and quantities are subject to availability from the nurseries — please contact us in the fall for the best selection. While tree survival cannot be guaranteed, the UTRCA takes every precaution to ensure the trees are received in the best condition possible.

The deadline for ordering trees is March 1.

Large Stock Coniferous Trees

  • Minimum order: 50 trees
  • Planting cost: $18/tree, plus cost of the trees and taxes

Large Stock Deciduous Trees

  • Minimum order: 25 trees
  • Planting cost: $42/tree, plus cost of the trees and taxes
  • Includes stake, tie, and rodent guard

  • Minimum order: 25 trees (can include both coniferous and deciduous large stock species)
  • Balled and burlap conifers – pick up from Fanshawe or Wildwood Conservation Area in early April
  • Large stock deciduous trees – pick up from Fanshawe Conservation Area in mid April
  • Landowners will be invoiced before receiving the trees

Available for Landowner Plantings

  • 5 foot pointed wooden stake, 2 x 2 inches, with tie @ $4 each
  • 24 inch spiral rodent guard @ $1.25 each

Choose from the following species (subject to availability). Find out more about these species.

Coniferous Trees

  • Tamarack – 45 cm tall, balled and burlap, $17.00/tree + HST
  • Norway Spruce – 60 cm tall, balled and burlap, $19.50/tree + HST
  • White Spruce – 60 cm tall, balled and burlap, $20.00/tree + HST
  • Colorado Spruce – 45 cm tall, balled and burlap, $20.00/tree + HST
  • White Pine – 45 cm tall, balled and burlap, $17.00/tree + HST
  • White Cedar – 60 cm tall, balled and burlap, $19.00/tree + HST
  • Black Cedar – 60 cm tall, balled and burlap, $19.50/tree + HST

Deciduous Trees

  • Red Maple – 175 cm tall, bare root, $34.50/tree + HST
  • Sugar Maple – 200 cm tall, bare root, $44.00/tree + HST
  • “Autumn Blaze” Maple – 175 cm tall, bare root, $38.00/tree + HST
  • “Autumn Fantasy” Maple – 175 cm tall, bare root, $38.00/tree + HST
  • Downy Serviceberry – 150 cm tall, bare root, $36.00/tree + HST
  • Hackberry – 175 cm tall, bare root, $43.00/tree + HST
  • Red Oak – 200 cm tall, bare root, $52.50/tree + HST
  • Bur Oak – 175 cm tall, bare root, $46.50/tree + HST
  • Swamp White Oak – 175 cm tall, bare root, $46.50/tree + HST
  • Basswood – 175 cm tall, bare root, $39.00/tree + HST
  • Tulip Tree – 100 cm tall, 3 gallon pot, $23.50/tree + HST

Wildlife Shrubs

  • American Hazelnut – 60 cm tall, 3 gallon pot, $24.50/tree + HST
  • Red Osier Dogwood – 50-75 cm tall, 2 gallon pot, $15.50/tree + HST
  • Ninebark – 50-75 cm tall, 3 gallon pot, $16.00/tree + HST
  • American Elderberry – 50-75 cm tall, 3 gallon pot, $16.50/tree + HST
  • Nannyberry – 50-75 cm tall, 3 gallon pot, $17.00/tree + HST

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