What Fruit Trees Cost at US Nurseries
Every morning since Aug 18 we have recorded the price and stock of every fruit tree listed by 13 US mail-order nurseries. This is what fruit trees cost today: 28 plants with a price you can actually order at, cheapest first, with the range each one spans across nurseries and how its cheapest price has moved over 29 recorded mornings.
A plant is compared only with itself. Each row is one species across nurseries; there is no average across kinds, because a pawpaw and a peach are not the same purchase. Open any row for every listing and the daily chart behind it.
Findings, Sep 15
- Cheapest way inApricot at $7.99 from Gurney's.
- Priciest entryYuzu: nothing under $102.95, at Fast Growing Trees.
- Widest spreadOlive runs $14.95 to $929.95 across 10 nurseries — the same species, 62× apart.
- Most widely soldApple, listed by 10 of the nurseries we track.
- MovementOf 28 plants with a cheapest price on record since Aug 18, 11 are dearer today, 0 are cheaper, and 17 have held. 36 nursery price changes in total.
- Bare-rootOn 1 plant the cheapest listing today is a bare-root preorder that ships in the dormant season — worth knowing before paying container prices in autumn.
- Sold out somewhere26 plants have at least one nursery sold out today.
| Plant | Nurseries | Cheapest today | Range today | Since Aug 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ApricotPrunus armeniaca | 9 | $7.99Gurney's | $7.99 – $134.99 | held |
| LimeCitrus × aurantiifolia / latifolia | 7 | $9.95Sow True Seed | $9.95 – $162.67 | held |
| AvocadoPersea americana | 3 | $12.99Peaceful Valley | $12.99 – $229.95 | held |
| OliveOlea europaea | 10 | $14.95One Green World | $14.95 – $929.95 | held |
| MulberryMorus alba × rubra / M. rubra | 8 | $15.95One Green World | $12.95 – $109.95 | +$3 |
| QuinceCydonia oblonga | 7 | $15.95One Green World | $15.95 – $99.95 | held |
| PawpawAsimina triloba | 9 | $19.95One Green World | $12.95 – $129.31 | +$7 |
| AppleMalus domestica | 10 | $24.95One Green World | $4.95 – $139.99 | +$20 |
| JujubeZiziphus jujuba | 9 | $24.95One Green World | $23 – $119.95 | held |
| Plum | 9 | $24.95One Green World | $9.95 – $143.95 | +$15 |
| Mandarin / TangerineCitrus reticulata | 1 | $32Woodlanders | $23 – $46 | held |
| Flowering CrabappleMalus hybrids | 3 | $34.95bare-rootWillis Orchard | $34.95 – $118.95 | held |
| PearPyrus communis | 10 | $34.95One Green World | $26.95 – $176.95 | +$5 |
| Persimmon | 1 | $34.95One Green World | $34.95 | held |
| PluotPrunus salicina × armeniaca | 6 | $34.95One Green World | $34.95 – $109.99 | held |
| GrapefruitCitrus × paradisi | 3 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $119.95 | held |
| KumquatCitrus japonica | 4 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $98.95 | held |
| MedlarMespilus germanica | 3 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $69.99 | held |
| OrangeCitrus × sinensis | 2 | $40Woodlanders | $23 – $86 | +$8 |
| Lemon | 4 | $44.95Fast Growing Trees | $23 – $99.95 | +$19 |
| NectarinePrunus persica | 9 | $55.95Trees of Antiquity | $24.95 – $144.95 | +$31 |
| PeachPrunus persica | 9 | $55.95Trees of Antiquity | $16.95 – $134.99 | +$39 |
| Cherry | 7 | $58.95Trees of Antiquity | $32.99 – $169.03 | +$4 |
| Calamondin OrangeCitrus × microcarpa | 2 | $61.95Fast Growing Trees | $61.95 – $89.99 | held |
| PapayaCarica papaya | 2 | $89.95Fast Growing Trees | $44.99 – $245.95 | held |
| Cocktail TreeMalus spp. / Prunus spp. / Pyrus spp. / Citrus spp. | 2 | $92.95Fast Growing Trees | $92.95 – $199.95 | held |
| LoquatEriobotrya japonica | 6 | $101.95Fast Growing Trees | $13.95 – $101.95 | +$88 |
| YuzuCitrus junos | 1 | $102.95Fast Growing Trees | $102.95 | heldfrom Aug 21 |
| MangoMangifera indica | 2 | listed, no price shown | $92.95 – $110.95 | — |
How this is collected
A script reads each nursery’s own catalogue every morning and records, for every plant in our library, each listing’s price and whether it can be ordered. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is estimated: a figure appears here only if a nursery published it that morning.
“Cheapest today” is the lowest price at which the plant can actually be ordered across every nursery — in stock, or a bare-root preorder that ships in the dormant season. Sizes differ between nurseries (a bare-root whip and a five-gallon tree are both “the cheapest way to get that plant from that nursery”), which is why every row links to a page listing each size and price. A nursery that lists the plant without publishing a price counts toward “nurseries” and contributes nothing to the figures.
- Nurseries
- Fast Growing Trees, Gurney's, Hudson Valley Seed, Nature Hills, One Green World, Peaceful Valley, Raintree Nursery, Sow True Seed, Stark Bro's, Territorial Seed, Trees of Antiquity, Willis Orchard, Woodlanders.
- Record
- 29 mornings, 2026-08-18 to 2026-09-15. A price is stored only when it changes, so a nursery that held one price for a month is one line, not thirty.
- Group
- The 29 plants are the library’s fruit trees collection, filtered to those with at least one nursery listing.
- Updated
- Every morning. Whenever you read this, the figures are from the most recent check.
Free to reuse with a link. Cite as: Story Thyme Farms, “What Fruit Trees Cost at US Nurseries,” September 2026, https://storythymefarms.com/prices/fruit-trees.