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Where is the best place to purchase live oaks?
Posted on 9/20/21 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 1:21 pm
I had to take a tree line down on my property. I'd like to replace the trees with 2 live oaks and some azaleas. Where is the best place to purchase a couple of 100 gallon live oak?
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Posted on 9/20/21 at 2:31 pm to Dixie
I grow a bunch of live oaks and know the business. It’s getting hard to find them in anything larger than 35-45 gallons. I have quit growing them that big due to handling and hauling.
Twin lakes nursery in canton texas is a good spot to start.
Twin lakes nursery in canton texas is a good spot to start.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 3:24 pm to Dixie
There is a nursery in Mississippi that has them but you would need to purchase them through a landscape contractor. The nursery is a wholesale grower
Posted on 9/20/21 at 4:10 pm to Dixie
If you want to enjoy it while you are still alive get one spaded in about 8" caliper.
Should cost $750-$1000.
Around BR there is a guy near New Roads that does this.
Should cost $750-$1000.
Around BR there is a guy near New Roads that does this.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 4:36 pm to Dixie
Gearlds Tree Farm in Youngsville
Posted on 9/20/21 at 5:51 pm to AndyCBR
6.5" caliper live oak 3 years ago was 1700. Probably looking at close to 3k for an 8".
Posted on 9/20/21 at 6:47 pm to lsurulzes88
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6.5" caliper live oak 3 years ago was 1700. Probably looking at close to 3k for an 8".
Not sure of your area or vendor but mine were significantly less.
Nobody in the BR area is paying that much for trees that I am aware of.
OP get a quote is the only way to know what you can get and for what price.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 7:43 pm to AndyCBR
That was from Ducotes. Field grown and installed. Robert and Moffatt in White Castle was about the same.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 8:47 pm to lsurulzes88
I bought a 6” caliper live oak from Ducote’s 5 years ago. He let me pick it out. It died even though I followed his watering instructions. He replaced it as guaranteed, but he picked out the new one, and it was shaped like shite—obviously one of the picked over ones. It was so ugly that I cut it down after 3 years and replaced it with a new one that I bought along with several other cathedral live oaks from a tree farm in Alabama. They had a lot of nice oaks but only up to 45 gallon size.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 6:29 pm to Dixie
Bob's Trees in Church Point is where I got mine. Good guy. Salt of the earth. Will talk your ear off
Posted on 10/27/21 at 12:52 pm to Dixie
I recently purchased some 30 gal live oak trees from Langridge Plant Sales in Belle Chasse, LA. They are a wholesale, so you have to know someone with a contractor's license.
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