What Fruit Trees Cost at US Nurseries
Since Aug 18, our daily collection has recorded a sample of fruit trees listings from 12 US mail-order nurseries. This is what fruit trees cost today: 28 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 52 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 the tracked listings and the daily chart behind it. Item prices exclude delivery and tax. Compare size, cultivar and shipping form before treating two listings as equivalent.
Findings, Oct 8
- Cheapest way inApple at $4.95 from Willis Orchard, available to preorder.
- Priciest entryYuzu: nothing under $103.95, at Fast Growing Trees.
- Widest spreadApple runs $4.95 to $139.99 across 10 nurseries — the same species, 28× apart.
- Most widely soldApple, listed by 10 of the nurseries we track.
- MovementOf 28 plants with a cheapest price on record since Aug 18, 6 are dearer today, 2 are cheaper, and 20 have held. 58 nursery price changes in total.
- PreorderOn 12 plants the cheapest listing today is a preorder that ships in the dormant season — worth knowing before paying container prices in autumn.
- Sold out somewhere25 plants have at least one nursery sold out today.
| Plant | Nurseries | Cheapest today | Range today | Since Aug 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppleMalus domestica | 10 | $4.95preorderWillis Orchard | $4.95 – $139.99 | held |
| Plum | 9 | $9.95preorderWillis Orchard | $9.95 – $150.95 | held |
| MulberryMorus alba × rubra / M. rubra | 8 | $12.95preorderWillis Orchard | $12.95 – $109.95 | held |
| PawpawAsimina triloba | 9 | $12.95preorderWillis Orchard | $12.95 – $146.95 | held |
| AvocadoPersea americana | 3 | $12.99Peaceful Valley | $12.99 – $235.95 | held |
| QuinceCydonia oblonga | 6 | $15.95One Green World | $15.95 – $99.95 | held |
| PeachPrunus persica | 9 | $16.95preorderWillis Orchard | $16.95 – $143.95 | held |
| OliveOlea europaea | 10 | $19.95preorderWillis Orchard | $19.95 – $120.95 | +$5 |
| LoquatEriobotrya japonica | 5 | $24.95preorderWillis Orchard | $13.95 – $85.95 | −$5 |
| NectarinePrunus persica | 9 | $24.95preorderWillis Orchard | $24.95 – $154.95 | held |
| ApricotPrunus armeniaca | 9 | $29.95preorderWillis Orchard | $28.95 – $236.95 | held |
| LimeCitrus × aurantiifolia / latifolia | 6 | $29.95One Green World | $29.95 – $119.95 | held |
| PearPyrus communis | 10 | $29.95preorderWillis Orchard | $29.95 – $164.95 | held |
| Mandarin / TangerineCitrus reticulata | 1 | $32Woodlanders | $23 – $46 | held |
| Flowering CrabappleMalus hybrids | 3 | $34.95preorderWillis Orchard | $34.95 – $176.95 | held |
| Persimmon | 1 | $34.95One Green World | $34.95 | held |
| GrapefruitCitrus × paradisi | 3 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $119.95 | held |
| KumquatCitrus japonica | 3 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $99.95 | held |
| Lemon | 5 | $39.95One Green World | $23 – $100.95 | −$5 |
| MedlarMespilus germanica | 3 | $39.95One Green World | $39.95 – $69.99 | held |
| OrangeCitrus × sinensis | 2 | $40Woodlanders | $23 – $86 | held |
| JujubeZiziphus jujuba | 9 | $44.95One Green World | $23 – $119.95 | +$20 |
| Cherry | 7 | $54.95preorderWillis Orchard | $32.99 – $169.03 | held |
| PluotPrunus salicina × armeniaca | 6 | $59.95Trees of Antiquity | $44.95 – $109.99 | +$25 |
| Calamondin OrangeCitrus × microcarpa | 2 | $67.95Fast Growing Trees | $67.95 – $80.99 | +$6 |
| PapayaCarica papaya | 2 | $90.95Fast Growing Trees | $44.99 – $245.95 | +$1 |
| Cocktail TreeMalus spp. / Prunus spp. / Pyrus spp. / Citrus spp. | 2 | $92.95Fast Growing Trees | $92.95 – $207.95 | held |
| YuzuCitrus junos | 1 | $103.95Fast Growing Trees | $103.95 | +$1from Aug 21 |
| MangoMangifera indica | 1 | listed, no price shown | $92.95 – $110.95 | — |
This is a tracked sample, not every product a nursery sells. Orderable-price changes include in-stock listings and preorders on both dates. The lowest listing can change because a different size or cultivar became available; it is not necessarily a price rise for the same product.
How this is collected
Our collector is scheduled daily to read nursery catalogues and record, for plants in our library, each listing’s price and whether it can be ordered. Nothing is typed in by hand and prices are not estimated. Check the recorded dates: an unsuccessful collection can leave an older observation in place.
“Cheapest today” is the lowest price at which the plant can actually be ordered across every nursery — in stock, or a 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, Hudson Valley Seed, Nature Hills, One Green World, Peaceful Valley, Raintree Nursery, Stark Bro's, Territorial Seed, Trees of Antiquity, Willis Orchard, Woodlanders.
- Record
- 52 mornings, 2026-08-18 to 2026-10-08. 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 29 plants are the library’s fruit trees collection, filtered to those with at least one nursery listing.
- Updated
- Collection is scheduled daily. Recorded dates show how recent the observations are.
Free to reuse with a link. Cite as: Story Thyme Farms, “What Fruit Trees Cost at US Nurseries,” October 2026, https://storythymefarms.com/prices/fruit-trees.