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Prairie Red 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 Prairie Red Plum (Bundle of 2).
At a glance: Prairie Red Plum is a hybrid plum released by a USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center for shelterbelts, 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 | Prairie Red hybrid plum (Prunus hybrid 'Prairie Red') |
|---|---|
| Hardy to | Zone 2 on the MFTC modified cold hardiness scale (-50°F). Grows in zones 2 to 8. A bare number means the whole of zone 2, colder half included. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
| Mature size | 12 to 15 ft tall, suckering |
| Pollination | Needs cross-pollination. Seedlings in a row generally pollenize each other. For the surest crop, mix in some Native American plum seedlings. |
| Spacing | 5 to 8 ft apart in the row. |
| Good for | Shrub or small tree row of a shelterbelt, wildlife food and cover, jam and jelly, a pollenizer for hybrid plums |
| Deer | A deer favorite. Protect young plants. |
| 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
Prairie Red is a hybrid plum released by a USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center, picked for bigger fruit, heavier crops and a taller, more tree like habit than wild American plum. It is thorny, tough and made for shelterbelts.
Origin & History
A seed grown release from a USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center in North Dakota, released in 2006. It traces back to a plum tree on the Wilford Hermann farm near Miller, South Dakota. It looks and grows like American plum.
Fruit & Uses
Red plums about an inch across, good for jam, jelly and sauce, and a late summer feast for wildlife.
Growth Habit
Large shrub or small tree, 12 to 15 ft, thorny and suckering.
Spacing
Plant 5 to 8 ft apart. A bundle of 25 covers 125 to 200 ft of row.
Pollination
Needs cross-pollination. Seedlings in a row generally pollenize each other, and mixing in some Native American plum seedlings makes the crop surer. Prairie Red is a good pollenizer for hybrid plums.
Cold hardiness
We rate Prairie Red 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 Prairie Red Plum to Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande or Saguache counties in Colorado (the San Luis Valley), where it is barred by the state's Prunus quarantine. Check your own state and county list before planting.
Questions we get about Prairie Red Plum
How cold hardy is Prairie Red Plum?
We rate it hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F.
How far apart do I plant Prairie Red Plum?
5 to 8 ft apart in a 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.