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Native American Plum (Wholesale Bundles) | Spring 2027
$173.00
Price breaks
| Bundles in your cart | Per bundle | Per plant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 bundles | $173.00 | $6.92 |
| 4 to 11 bundles | $147.05 | $5.88 |
| 12 to 23 bundles | $129.75 | $5.19 |
| 24 bundles and up | $112.45 | $4.50 |
40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants.
Farm & Ranch bundles are already priced wholesale, so SAVE discount codes don't apply to them.
Reliable shipping
Only need a few? This page is wholesale, sold by the bundle. For smaller numbers, order our Native American Plum (Bundle of 3).
At a glance: Native American Plum is a thorny, thicket forming native plum rated hardy to zone 2 in our ratings (winters to -50°F). Ships bare root. Sold here at wholesale prices, by the bundle.
| Also called | American plum, wild plum (Prunus americana) |
|---|---|
| Hardy to | Zone 2 on the MFTC modified cold hardiness scale (-50°F). Grows in zones 2 to 9. A bare number means the whole of zone 2, colder half included. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
| Mature size | 8 to 12 ft tall, suckering into a thicket |
| Pollination | Needs cross-pollination. A row of seedlings takes care of it. |
| Spacing | 4 to 6 ft apart in the row. |
| Good for | Shrub row of a shelterbelt, wildlife thickets, living fence, jam and jelly, a pollenizer for hybrid plums |
| Deer | Sometimes damaged by deer. Protect young plants where deer pressure is high. |
| What you get | Dormant bare root seedlings, 25 plants to a bundle, or 20 to a bundle for 3 ft. and taller. Sizes: 6-10 in., 10-24 in., 2-3 ft. and 3 ft.+. Shipped from Missoula, or picked up in Missoula, in spring 2027. |
| Wholesale terms | Sold by the bundle. Mix any Farm & Ranch plants to reach a price break at 4, 12 and 24 bundles. 40 bundles or more, email us for a quote. |
Overview
Native American Plum is the wild plum of Montana's draws and river breaks. It suckers into a thorny thicket that stops wind and snow, hides pheasants and deer, and hangs with red and yellow plums in late summer. The white flowers open before the leaves and smell unreal.
Origin & History
Native from Montana east to the Atlantic. It is a parent of the hardy hybrid plums bred for the northern plains.
Fruit & Uses
Inch wide plums that ripen shiny red in August or September, with tart skins and sweet flesh. They're great fresh if you leave them on the tree a little longer, and they dry well and make great jam, jelly and sauce. Fruit varies from seedling to seedling.
Growth Habit
Large suckering shrub or small tree, 8 to 12 ft tall, with thorny spur branches.
Spacing
Plant 4 to 6 ft apart. A bundle of 25 covers 100 to 150 ft of row.
Pollination
Needs a different seedling nearby, which any row provides. Native American Plum is a good pollenizer for hybrid plums that bloom at the same time.
Cold hardiness
We rate Native American Plum to zone 2, winters to -50°F.
How wholesale orders work
- Bundles can't be split. Sizes under 3 ft. come 25 to a bundle, 3 ft. and taller come 20 to a bundle.
- Price breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants. 4 bundles, 12 bundles and 24 bundles each drop the price on all of them. The discount shows up in your cart on its own.
- Add to your order any time before it ships. Same shipping address, and the bundles count together toward the next price break.
- No cancellations after February 1. Cancel part of an order before then and the rest is priced at the break it still earns.
- If we come up short on a plant, you keep the price break you paid for and we refund the bundles we couldn't send.
- Our dead plant guarantee covers these the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping. We can't break a bundle, so credit goes toward a future order, not loose replacement plants.
- Planting 40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Shipping restrictions: We cannot ship Native American Plum to Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande or Saguache County in Colorado (the San Luis Valley), where plums and most other Prunus are prohibited under a state quarantine. The rest of Colorado is fine. Check your own state and county list before planting.
Questions we get about Native American Plum
How cold hardy is Native American Plum?
We rate it hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F.
How far apart do I plant Native American Plum?
4 to 6 ft apart in a shrub row.
What arrives, and when does it ship?
Dormant bare root seedlings by the bundle, roots packed in moist sawdust, shipped from Missoula or picked up in Missoula in spring 2027. Orders are paid in full at checkout. Our dead plant guarantee covers them: a plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code toward a future order.
Photos: “Prunus americana - American (wild) plum - Flickr - Matt Lavin” by Matt Lavin, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.