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Sitka Spruce Trees | Picea sitchensis

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Picea sitchensis

Sapling Trees
  • Evergreen conifer.
  • Fast growing.
  • Great on the coast.
  • Sizes: Saplings only.
  • Max. Height: 50m
  • Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar
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What to expect
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Hedge plants & sapling trees are measured by their height in centimetres above soil level. Roots or pots aren't measured.

Pot sizes are measured by their volume in litres, except for the smallest size, 9cm / p9 pots, which are roughly half a litre.

Troughs are 1m long with plants around 1.5m above the trough.

20/40cm
Bareroot
£3.48each
Qty
1-24
25 - 249
250 - 499
500 +
£
£ 3.48
£ 3.00
£ 2.34
£ 1.98
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Despatched From November 2025

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Description

Sitka Spruce - Bareroot Sapling Plants

Delivered by Mail Order Direct from our Nursery with a Year Guarantee

The Sitka Spruce, Picea sitchensis, is a very large, fast-growing evergreen, putting on a metre of growth per year for its first few decades: 30 metres in as many years is typical, after which it slows down. It has lovely thin, flaky bark that varies in colour from purplish-grey to silvery brown. Its needles are pale, glaucous blue on the underside and deep green on top, which looks great when the tree is buffeted by wind. It is an important forestry tree in its own right and it also makes a good nurse tree.

Growing Sitka Spruce Trees
This hardy tree thrives on the coast and seems to be happy on very poor soils, but not if they are chalky or too dry. It likes damp, alluvial sites beside water, although boggy, low-lying ground isn't suitable for planting saplings into (in the wild, Sitka seeds can germinate successfully in swamps, but there the tree adapts to the wet conditions from day one of its life). It isn't recommended for the city or polluted industrial areas.
Your trees can reach around 50 metres in the UK.

Planting Instructions

Did You Know?

Also known as the Menzies' or Tideland spruce, Picea sitchensis comes from the West coast of North America and is the Alaskan state tree. It is the world's largest spruce: the tallest on record is a tad over 100 metres, growing amongst the Redwood Sequoias in California.
David Douglas brought it to Britain in 1831, and it has become one of our most used forestry trees; a 2010 estimate reckoned that around 70% of our commercial forests are Sitka spruces. It makes superb paper, and aircraft were usually made from Sitka timber until the rise of big, aluminium jets. We are told that Sitka wood is used in the nose cones of Trident nuclear missiles!

The Alaskan Sheet'-Ká tribe is today composed of people from the Tlingit, Haida, Aleut and Tsimpsian lineages.

What to expect

It's Spring Planting Season 2025

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From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
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