What Nut Trees Cost at US Nurseries
Every morning since Aug 18 we have recorded the price and stock of every nut tree listed by 10 US mail-order nurseries. This is what nut trees cost today: 5 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 inShagbark Hickory at $8.95 from Willis Orchard, shipping bare-root.
- Priciest entryChestnut: nothing under $91.95, at Fast Growing Trees.
- Widest spreadPecan runs $12.34 to $223.78 across 5 nurseries — the same species, 18× apart.
- Most widely soldAlmond, listed by 9 of the nurseries we track.
- MovementOf 5 plants with a cheapest price on record since Aug 18, 4 are dearer today, 0 are cheaper, and 1 has held. 3 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 somewhere6 plants have at least one nursery sold out today.
| Plant | Nurseries | Cheapest today | Range today | Since Aug 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata | 3 | $8.95bare-rootWillis Orchard | $8.95 – $132.13 | held |
| Walnut | 6 | $17.99Raintree Nursery | $9.95 – $42.33 | +$8.04 |
| AlmondPrunus dulcis | 9 | $34.95One Green World | $16.95 – $174.95 | +$18 |
| PecanCarya illinoinensis | 5 | $70.95Fast Growing Trees | $12.34 – $223.78 | +$31 |
| ChestnutCastanea mollissima & hybrids | 8 | $91.95Fast Growing Trees | $10.95 – $124.95 | +$81 |
| PistachioPistacia vera | 2 | listed, no price shown | $29.95 | — |
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, Nature Hills, One Green World, Peaceful Valley, Raintree Nursery, Stark Bro's, 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 6 plants are the library’s nut 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 Nut Trees Cost at US Nurseries,” September 2026, https://storythymefarms.com/prices/nut-trees.