[Ellendra]

https://mountaintimefarm.com recently changed the prices on all their trees to $5 each.

The majority of their trees are grown from seed, not grafts or cuttings, so the results are less predictable. Nuts will probably be fairly consistent, but apples and pears will be a gamble. But, you get a strong tree for a very low price, and if you don’t like the fruit then you can graft something you like onto it later.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I will pass that on to The Chairman! :) We planted 400 seedling evergreens (Norway Spruce) in Spring 2012 - the year we then had that horrific drought. About 200 survived. On the 4th of July that year, in 100 degree heat, we hauled 800 gallons of water to all of them.

That was a LOT of fun - NOT! I did learn to drive the 1954 Allis-Chalmers tractor that day, though! :)

Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm long. It is very closely related to the Siberian spruce, which replaces it east of the Ural Mountains, and with which it hybridizes freely.

Our 'survivors' are about 1/2 this size right now, so it was well worth it. It's on land we're preserving to grow some Big Bucks. They're a pretty tree and a good wind-break - we have mature ones on the west and north side of the house where they really do their job.