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Where to Buy Native Trees

See Where to Buy Native Plants for a more comprehensive list of nurseries, garden centers and plant sales. Here are our top picks for where to buy northeast native trees:

• Earth Tones Native Plant Nursery––CT
• Native Plant Trust––MA
• Fedco Trees––ME
• Native Haunts––ME
• NH State Forest Nursery––NH
• Rhody Native––RI
• Champlain Valley Native Plant Restoration Nursery––VT
• Intervale Conservation Nursery––VT

Community Tree Planting

Around the world people are banning together to share the gift of trees with their communities. Get inspired by the structures and practices they’ve set in place. Then, either join an existing local effort or to start a new one. Seek out reputable nonprofit organizations that work hard to have tree planting benefit both local ecosystems and communities.

• American Forests, The Tazo Tree Corps––Cities across the US
• Fedco Seeds Coop––ME
• Forterra Tree Ambassador Program––Seattle, WA
• Friends of the Urban Forest––San Francisco, CA
• Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr commits to planting 1 million trees––Freetown, Sierra Leone
• MillionTrees NYC––New York City, NY
• Nibezun, a Wabanaki center for cultural healing and sustainability––Old Town, ME
• One Tree Planted––worldwide
• Urban Forests, Miyawaki method––Europe
• Voyageurs National Park Native Plant Nursery––International Falls, MN

Books & Publications

Pick up these books at your local bookstore or library:

• Cullina, William. Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
• Dove, Tony, and Ginger Woolridge. Essential Native Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2018.
• Farrar, John Laird. Trees of the Northern United States and Canada. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995.
• Fergus, Charles. Trees of New England. Guilford, CT: Falcon Guide, 2005.
• Haskell, David George. The Songs of Trees. New York: Penguin, 2018.
• Hightshoe, Gary L. Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Urban and Rural America. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988.
• Jorgensen, Neil. Sierra Club Naturalist Guide to Southern New England. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1978.
• Kock, Henry. Growing Trees from Seed. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008.
• Powers, Richard. The Overstory. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2018.
• Maloof, Joan. The Living Forest. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2017.
• Richardson, Mark, and Dan Jaffe. Native Plants for New England Gardens. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2018.
• Sibley, David Allen. The Sibley Guide to Trees. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
• Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
• Sternberg, Guy. Native Trees for North American Landscapes. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2004.
• Tallamy, Douglas W. Bringing Nature Home. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2009.
• ———. Nature’s Best Hope. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2019.
• ———. The Nature of Oaks. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2021.
• Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2016.

Websites

• Biota of North America Program: North American Plant Atlas
• Harvard Forest: Publications
• Maine Forest Service: Forest Trees of Maine
• Native Plant Trust:
  • Go Botany
  • Garden Plant Finder
• National Wildlife Federation: Native Plant Finder
• USDA Plant Hardiness Zones Map