Tree Sale

Shade tree sale

The City of Northfield will be accepting orders for trees for the annual Shade Tree Program from April 3 to 26, 2023. The quantity of trees available will be limited so orders will be taken on a first-come-first-served basis. The trees available for sale are listed on the order form. 

Ordering and paying

Must be a Northfield resident. Residents can order the trees by completing the order form.

Fill out the tree sale order form (link will be live when sale is in progress)

Mail in payment – check or money order. No cash or check drop off this year. Mail to:

City of Northfield
Streets & Parks
801 Washington Street
Northfield, MN 55057

Staff will call or email you to confirm your order.

Picking up trees

Trees will be available to pick up at the Streets and Parks Maintenance Facility during the week of May 15.

Streets and Parks Maintenance Facility
1710 Riverview Drive
Northfield, MN 55057

Planting and tree care instructions will be provided to buyers to help their trees thrive.

Donating a tree

If you would like to donate a tree to a city park instead of planting on your own property, contact us.

More information

More information about the program contact the Streets & Parks Department at 507-645-3045.

Tree care (PDF)

Trees likely to thrive in Minnesota's changing climate (PDF)

River Birch

Tree - River Birch

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10 (2 remain as of 4/11/2023)
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $37.95

General tree information

  • Grows 40 to 50 feet tall and 30 to 40 feet wide
  • Fast growing
  • Yellow leaves in the fall, and cinnamon-colored peeling bark
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Blue Beech

Tree - Blue Beech

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 4 to 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $57.95

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 5
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $129.00

General tree information

  • Grows up to 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide, oval form
  • Can be grown as a large shrub or a multi-trunk tree
  • Its bark is an attractive blue-gray color
  • A relatively slow growing tree that is native to Minnesota
  • The trunk has a fluted “muscle-like” appearance
  • Fall color is red, orange, and yellow
  • Will grow in full sun or full shade

Prairiefire Crabapple

Tree - Prairifire Crabapple

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 5 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10 (SOLD OUT)
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $31.95

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 5 to 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $129.00

General tree information

  • Grows up to 20 feet tall and 20 feet wide
  • Fuchsia-colored flowers bloom in the late spring
  • Adaptable to many soil types, but will not tolerate standing water
  • Dark red fruits are produced in the fall
  • It is a great ornamental and decorative tree
  • Disease resistant
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Spring Snow Crabapple

Tree - Spring Snow Crabapple

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $149

General tree information

  • Grows up to 20 to 25 feet tall and 15 to 25 feet wide
  • Produces white flowers in mid-spring
  • This crabapple tree does not produce any fruit in the fall
  • In the fall the green leaves turn yellow
  • Needs partial to full sunlight

Cathedral Elm

Tree - Cathedral Elm

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $44.95

General tree information

  • Grows up to 50 feet tall and 50 feet wide
  • Adaptable to adverse conditions, dry and moist soils and de-icing salt
  • Good resistance to Dutch elm disease, elm leaf beetle and other leaf-cutting insects.
  • Has large green leaves with serrated margins and pointed tips
  • Turns yellow in the fall
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

St. Croix American Elm

Tree - st croix american elm

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $119.00

General tree information

  • Grow up to 70 feet tall and 80 feet wide, Vase shaped
  • Adaptable to dry and moist soils and de-icing salt
  • Fast growing
  • Has good resistance to Dutch elm disease
  • Yellow fall color
  • Full Sun (at least 6 hours)

New Horizon Elm

Tree - New Horizon Elm

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $36.50

#7 container

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75- inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $119.00

General tree information

  • Grow up to 40 feet tall and 24 feet wide
  • Adaptable to dry and moist soils and de-icing salt
  • Fast growing
  • Has good resistance to Dutch elm disease
  • Yellow fall color
  • Full Sun (at least 6 hours)

Princeton Sentry Ginkgo

Tree - princeton sentry ginkgo leavesTree - princeton sentry ginkgo

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 4 to 5 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $71.95

General tree information

  • Grows up to 50 feet tall and 20 feet wide, narrow pyramidal form
  • Turns golden yellow in the fall
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Hackberry

Tree - hackberry

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $43.95

#7 container

  • Height at time of sale: 8 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 5
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $129.00

General tree information

  • Grows 70 feet tall and 50 feet wide
  • Tolerant of many types of soil, but doesn’t like standing water
  • Produces small dark-red berries that are popular with birds
  • Turns buttery yellow in the fall
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Ironwood

Tree - Ironwood close up

Ironwood tree

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 5 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $58.95

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 5 to 9 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $119.00

General tree information

  • Grows up to 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide
  • Medium to dark green leaves with doubly serrate leaf margins and a pointed leaf tip
  • Fruits are drooping clusters at the tip of branches that look like hops
  • Turns lemon yellow in the fall
  • Full sun to partial shade (at least 4 hours)

American Sentry Linden

Tree - American Sentry Linden

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: .75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $41.95

General tree information

  • Grows 40 feet tall and 20 feet wide
  • Summer color is dark green above and lighter green on the lower surface
  • Fall color is golden yellow
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Northern Pin Oak

Northern Pin Oak

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 8 to 10 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $51.95

General tree information

  • Grows 60 feet tall and 50 feet wide
  • Prefers moist, slightly acidic soil
  • Produces acorns which take two seasons to mature
  • Fall color is brick red
  • Full to partial sun (at least 4 hours)

Swamp White Oak

Tree - Swamp White Oak acornSwamp White Oak

Bare root sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10 (4 remain of as 4/11/2023)
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $44.95

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 7 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 0.75 to 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $119.00

General tree information

  • Grows 60 feet tall and 60 feet wide in a rounded shape
  • Features dark green deciduous leaves with a leathery texture
  • Yields oblong acorns in pairs
  • Is well-adapted to low-lying areas with poor drainage, but also tolerant to dry sites
  • Fall color is coppery-bronze
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Ancestry Oak

Tree - ancestry oak

#7 container information

  • Height at time of sale: 6 to 7 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $99.00

General tree information

  • Grows up to 50 to 70 feet tall and 30 to 50 feet wide
  • Well-drained soil
  • Medium to fast growth rate
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)

Armstrong Gold Maple

Tree - armstrong gold maple

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 to 7 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1-inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $159.00

General tree information

  • Grows 40 feet tall and 12 feet wide, narrow columnar form
  • Red flowers bloom in the early spring
  • Adaptable to different soil types, but will not tolerate standing water
  • Fall color is golden yellow to orange
  • Partial sun to full sun (at least 4 hours)

Celebration Maple

Tree - celebration maple green

#7 container sale

  • Height at time of sale: 6 to 7 feet
  • Trunk diameter at time of sale: 1 inch
  • Total number of trees available for purchase: 10
  • Price per tree (includes tax): $119.00

General tree information

  • Grows 45 feet tall and 30 feet wide, upright growth habit
  • Red flowers bloom in the early spring
  • Adaptable to different soil types, but will not tolerate standing water
  • Fall color is golden yellow with red hues
  • Full sun (at least 6 hours)
  • High tolerance to different soils and climates