English Walnut Plants

The English Walnut tree, Juglans regia, has great autumn colour and makes nuts in the autumn, usually within 10-15 years from planting. If you allow it to grow naturally, it becomes a wide, spreading tree that casts dappled shade and is just the place for a bench and a quiet snooze int he afternnon. If you are stricter and grow it in close company with other walnuts to produce straight trunks without side branches, then the timber is extremely valuable.

The plants on this page are young saplings. You can also buy larger English Walnut trees here. You can also browse our full range of nut trees for sale or see the full variety of fruit trees online.

English Walnut plants are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March). All of our young trees and shrubs are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

History & uses of Juglans regia:
Walnuts are native to Greece, the Middle East and temperate mountain regions in Asia. They were brought to Britain by the Romans.

Notes on planting English Walnut:
These are quite slow growing trees that need a sunny spot and good shelter if they are being grown in the North. They are fine on clay soils in the South, but in colder regions they need a light, well drained soil. They aren't suitable for hedging, but their big round canopies start quite close to the ground, so they make good screening in time.

Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the area where you intend to plant several months in advance. Destroy the weeds first: nettles, brambles and ground elder are tough and a glyphosate based weed-killer is the best way to remove them. Then dig the soil over; remove rocks, roots and other rubbish. Mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades.
If you have a heavy clay soil, it might be too difficult to dig over for most of the year. Heavy clay is fertile soil, so you don't really need to improve it; killing the weeds is still necessary.

Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Planting accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
If you are planting in an area with rabbit and/or deer, you will need to use a protective plastic spiral for each plant, supported by a bamboo cane.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	Edible Fruit / Nuts, Wildlife Value
Soil	Acidic
Type	Screening
Also Good	Autumn Colour

	NUMBER OF PLANTS
SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
60/80 cm Bareroot	Plenty of Stock£3.69	Plenty of Stock£2.50	Plenty of Stock£2.30	Plenty of Stock£2.05	Plenty of Stock£1.80

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English Walnut Plants