# Acorns, Nuts & Seed

> Acorns, nuts and seed to sow, collected from the same proven parent trees as our saplings.

405 of the species we grow are also offered as acorns, nuts or seed to sow: [forty-three as acorns](https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/acorns-and-seed/index.html.md?as=acorns), [twenty-three as nuts](https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/acorns-and-seed/index.html.md?as=nuts) and [339 as seed packets](https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/acorns-and-seed/index.html.md?as=seed). The [seed sowing planner](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/sowing/index.html.md) turns each page's sowing advice into dates for your fall or spring. Acorns and chestnuts are alive and die if they dry. [White-oak-group acorns](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/red-oaks-and-white-oaks/index.html.md) should be planted the week they arrive, red-oak-group acorns want one to three months of [cold, damp storage](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/planting-acorns-nuts-and-seed/index.html.md) and most nuts a full winter of it. Most small seed keeps dry until sowing, though pawpaw and magnolia seed must stay moist. Acorns, nuts and seed ship year-round. Sow them under hardware cloth, or [the squirrels dig them up](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/protecting-trees-from-animals/index.html.md).

An order of only seed, acorns or nuts ships for $5.00 for the first item and $0.50 for each additional one to MD, DE, VA, PA, NJ, DC and WV; for $10.00 for the first item and $1.00 for each additional one to the rest of the contiguous US. [Rates and shipping details](https://bluewhaletrees.com/shipping/index.html.md#seed-rates).

22 of 414 plants matching "rhododendron". Each plant links to its own Markdown page with the full facts, description and growing guide. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/acorns-and-seed/?q=rhododendron

Columns: Zones are the USDA hardiness zones the plant takes, from the coldest to the warmest it is rated for (zone 2 is the coldest, 10 the warmest); Height is mature height in feet; Sun and Soil list every condition the plant takes; Grown from is what the nursery offers it as (saplings, or acorns, nuts or seed to sow); Price is the lowest price for sale, a plant size's first and a packet's apart, or Sold out for a priced plant with nothing for sale, or "ask" when the plant is not yet priced online (email captain@bluewhaletrees.com or join the waitlist on the web page).

This table accepts the shop's filters as query parameters on this address: size (shrub, small-tree, medium-tree, large-tree), sun (full, part, shade), moisture (dry, average, wet), zone (2 to 10), native (a state's two-letter code in capitals, such as PA: the plants native to that state by the USDA PLANTS records), want (a trait: flowers, fall-color, wildlife, honey, edible, evergreen, rare, drought, wet-tolerant, shade, early-bearing, screening, nitrogen-fixing, salt, winter-interest, street-tree, erosion-control; rare means uncommon in the wild or in nurseries, honey a nectar source for bees), as (acorns, seed, nuts, saplings) and q (a search word). Several values may be joined with commas.

| Plant | Botanical name | Group | Type | Height (ft) | Zones | Sun | Soil | Grown from | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Rosebay Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rosebay-rhododendron/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron maximum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 10–15 | 3–7 | Shade, Part | Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Catawba Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/catawba-rhododendron/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron catawbiense* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 6–10 | 4–8 | Part, Shade, Full | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Piedmont Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/piedmont-rhododendron/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron minus* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–10 | 5–8 | Part, Shade, Full | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Chapman's Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chapman-rhododendron/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron chapmanii* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–8 | 7–9 | Part | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Cumberland Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cumberland-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron cumberlandense* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–7 | 4–8 | Part, Full | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [May White Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/may-white-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron eastmanii* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 15–16 | 8–9 | Part, Shade | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Pinxterbloom Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pinxterbloom-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron periclymenoides* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–6 | 4–9 | Part, Full, Shade | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Flame Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flame-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron calendulaceum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 4–12 | 5–7 | Part, Full | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Plumleaf Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/plumleaf-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron prunifolium* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 8–12 | 5–9 | Part, Shade | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Pinkshell Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pinkshell-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron vaseyi* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 5–15 | 4–7 | Part, Full | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Sweet Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweet-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron arborescens* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 8–20 | 4–8 | Part, Full | Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Piedmont Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/piedmont-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron canescens* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 6–15 | 5–10 | Part, Full | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Swamp Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron viscosum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–8 | 4–9 | Part, Full | Wet, Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Florida Flame Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-flame-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron austrinum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 6–10 | 6–9 | Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Alabama Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/alabama-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron alabamense* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 4–6 | 6–9 | Part, Shade | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Coastal Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/coastal-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron atlanticum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 2–6 | 5–8 | Part, Full | Average, Wet, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Oconee Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/oconee-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron flammeum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 6–8 | 6–9 | Part, Shade | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Red Hills Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-hills-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron colemanii* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 8–20 | 6–9 | Part, Shade | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Minnie-bush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/minnie-bush/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron pilosum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–6 | 5–7 | Part, Full | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Rhodora](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rhodora/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron canadense* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 1–3 | 4–6 | Part, Full | Wet, Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Labrador Tea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/labrador-tea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron groenlandicum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 1–5 | 2–8 | Full, Part | Wet, Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Roseshell Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/roseshell-azalea/index.html.md) | *Rhododendron prinophyllum* | Native Shrubs | Shrub | 3–10 | 3–8 | Part, Full, Shade | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |