I want to get bare root starts or seeds for a mayday tree to use as a privacy barrier at the edge of my land. I have spent a couple hours on the Internet and can't find a place to order from. Any ideas?

Prunus padus - Mayday Tree

Purple Leaf Mayday Tree
Prunus padus Purpurea
This is a very good looking purple leaf tree for the landscape. Well worth planting as liners or in landscapes directly.
5 gallon 6’ $ 9

Found at: http://www.byronnursery.com/byron.html

Cheers

Thanks, David. It implies that they only do business with nurseries at high volume, and ship with their own trucks. I am in Alaska and they are too far away. The Mayday trees here are green leaf with while clusters of blooms.

NQ - just for your information, we call them May trees here. Just so that you know - and do not limit your search. They are very pretty in May when they are covered in those lovely blooms!

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Originally posted by nerdqueendeluxe:
Thanks, David. It implies that they only do business with nurseries at high volume, and ship with their own trucks. I am in Alaska and they are too far away. The Mayday trees here are green leaf with while clusters of blooms.

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I'm sorry, I had thought you could get in contact with them and see if they could either ship you one or knew of someone in your area who could ship you one.

Not the same thing? Hm. Sorry about that too.

Thanks David & Tree. I already have one tree in my yard in town but don't have the skills to try and grow one from a graft..if that can be done. They send up suckers off a root or the trunk but I would have to hack a piece out of the tree. Somewhere there has to be an easy to do this.

NQ, my Sumac tree is similar, in that it sends out suckers. If you get a sucker and enough of the root, you can easily start a new tree. I got 2 new ones from my sumac.

Suckers?

If you get a supple one, you could try bending it into a pot full of soil, covering up a bit of the twig with dirt, holding it in the pot with a rock.

Some suckers will root on their own if they are stuck in dirt. (Oleanders do this rather nicely)

Others require a nick in the bark, or stripping away a small portion, where that wound is roots will grow if you have it buried. Leave it attached to the tree, holding it in a pot of soil with a hefty rock

Try it on some of the suckers.

You can also try to root suckers. Cut them off, then put them in water and while under water cut off about an inch and leave in water. I have had several things root this way.

Cheers

David