Red Oak Seeds / Acorns
Quercus rubra
£4.00 – £18.90
The Red Oak, Quercus rubra, is notable for its rapid growth and vibrant autumn foliage. Adaptable to various soils, it’s a splendid addition to any landscape, offering ecological benefits.
- ✓ Grow your own mighty Red Oak tree from our premium, freshly harvested acorns, and enjoy the satisfaction of nurturing a majestic legacy from seed
- ✓ These viable Red Oak acorns are ready to plant, providing you with a fun and educational project that will last for generations to come
- ✓ Our Quercus rubra seeds are sourced from healthy, mature trees, ensuring the best possible genetics for your future oak's growth and vigour
- ✓ Planting Red Oak acorns is an easy and rewarding way to add a striking, long-lived tree to your landscape, enhancing both beauty and biodiversity
- ✓ Quality UK seed stock from Yarrow Gardens - DEFRA Registered Supplier
Quercus rubra, commonly known as Red Oak, is a majestic tree renowned for its fast growth and striking autumn foliage. This deciduous tree, native to Eastern North America, is highly adaptable and grows well in a variety of soil conditions, including chalk, sand, and clay. The Red Oak’s leaves, which turn a beautiful red or red-brown in autumn, make it a popular choice for landscape designs. It also provides significant ecological benefits, supporting wildlife through its acorns, which serve as a food source for various species.
Natural Germination: Red Oak seeds typically undergo a natural stratification process during winter.
Artificial Stratification: For artificial germination, mix seeds with moist sand and refrigerate for 60-90 days before planting.
Scarification
Soak in water for 24 hours
Cold Stratification
Cold stratify for 60 days
Germinate
Expect about 91% germinancy
Difficulty Level
Easy
Delivery
Yarrow Gardens aim to have your order with you in fastest time possible and safest method of transport. Dependent on the parcel size and geographical destination in mind with will select the most suitable courier.
You are welcome to collect any times from our nursery in Euxton, Lancashire. Please contact us to arrange a suitable date and time.
With regret, we can no longer send items out to Northern Ireland. All live plants need a phytosanitary checks and DAERA must be notified. This process is simply too expensive at the moment.
Returns
In the rare instance that your item has been damaged during delivery or incorrectly shipped by us, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss the return and replacement of your item.
Once you have contacted us and we have confirmation that your parcel is on its way back to us we will be happy to issue a refund for the return postage.
Delivery Class | Delivery Cost | |
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Royal Mail Letter - Royal Mail Tracked | £3.25 (Flat) | |
Royal Mail Letter - Royal Mail Second Class | £0.95 (Flat) | |
Royal Mail Large Letter - Royal Mail Tracked | £3.25 (Flat) | This item |
Royal Mail Large Letter - Royal Mail Second Class | £2.10 (Flat) | This item |
Standard Items - Standard Courier (Parcelforce) | £7.95 (Flat) | |
Standard Items - Standard Courier (Evri) | £4.49 (Flat) | |
Medium Items - Standard Courier (Parcelforce) | £7.95 (Flat) | |
Large Items - Pallet Courier | £90.00 (Flat) | |
Large Items - Standard Courier (Parcelforce) | £28.95 (Flat) | |
Large Items - Standard Courier (Parcel Force) | £24.95 (Flat) | |
Pallet Courier - Pallet Courier | £90.00 (Flat) |
We are a small family business based in Euxton, West Lancashire. We specialise in the supply of trees, shrubs both bare root & cell grown. Much of our stock is grown directly on site from seed or cuttings. Other stock is all UK sourced where possible.
We adhere to industry leading biosecurity measures, this ensures that our nursery remains clean and disease free.
We are DEFRA registered and our nursery is regularly inspected to confirm compliance with all current plant and plant health regulations.
Our Plant Passport Registration Number is GB140010
You can view our Plant Healthy report here.
We are actively working towards the Grown in Britain certification along with the Plant Healthy certification.
Should you have any concern or question in respect of our plant health matters, please get in touch.