Honey Locust

Honey Locust

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ORDERS PLACED NOW ARE FOR SPRING 2025 AND ARE SHIPPED AT THE OPTIMUM TIME TO PLANT IN YOUR REGION FROM DEC-MAY

Shipments to Southern states like FL and LA will go out Dec-Feb and we will work our way North as the weather warms. We'll finish up in the North in states like MI and WI in May. A notification will be sent via email prior to shipment with tracking info.

For more exact timing based on your location please see our Shipping Date Map

Trees are covered by our Survival Guarantee as long as you protect them with a tree tube and follow warranty conditions. See full warranty conditions here: Survival Guarantee

Mycorrhizae is a beneficial soil fungus that grows on the roots of your trees and helps them take up water and nutrients more effectively. Similar to inoculating plants like beans and peas prior to planting. If you select this option we will include a packet of mycorrhizae granules with your trees. Just sprinkle in the hole prior to planting and you're good to go. We don't plant anything here at the farm without using it ourselves!

When you buy from us you can rest assured that you're going to end up with a healthy growing tree come spring. We guarantee that all our trees will emerge from dormancy so you don't have to worry about spending your money on something that may or may not bud out come spring. Just follow the recommendations in our planting instructions and your tree is covered.

You must protect your trees with one of our tree tubes for this guarantee to apply.

For all details and conditions, see here: Survival Guarantee

Orders placed now are for Spring 2025 shipment

Spring trees are bare root and shipped dormant. These orders will ship at the proper time for planting in your region from Dec-May. See our Shipping Date Map to see when orders will ship to your state. 

 

 

Honey Locust

Honey locust is a very unique tree with some surprising qualities that can make it very useful for land and habitat management. Honey locust is a fairly non-descript tree that flowers in the spring and produces large bean pods in the fall that are very attractive to wildlife. Honey locust flowers are small and often go unnoticed by the eye but are very attractive to pollinators.

Seed pods develop and ripen in early fall and persist on the tree falling slowly throughout the fall and into January or early February. These seed pods are 8-14in long and contain beans inside that are sweet, some say they taste like honey. The sweet, honey-like, taste of the seeds is where honey locust gets its name. Deer and other wildlife including squirrels, turkeys, quail, raccoons, and opossums love these sweet bean pods and will stop by often to see what has fallen that day. Honey locust make a great addition around field edges and food plots. There they can get great sun and provide a specific point of attraction as deer filter into the plot or field making them a great stand site. 

Honey locust not only provide great food source, they also put nitrogen into your soil. Scientists are still researching to determine whether nitrogen is produced from their roots, as in nitrogen fixing legumes like peas, or if it comes from their large volume of leaf drop. Honey locust do produce lots of leaf litter, this makes them great for building soil and incorporating more organic material into marginal soils. Consider planting them on log decks and washouts to help build soils. Honey locust are very hardy trees that will grow nearly anywhere so they wont mind the poor soils. 

Another useful trait of honey locust is their ability to grow in alkaline areas with high pH and marginal soil. This makes them great for land reclamation. Areas previously used for mining are not usually suitable for many trees but honey locust can be an exception to that rule. They can help to reclaim the land and rebuild soils all while providing a good food source for wildlife. 


 

You must protect your trees with one of our Tree Tubes to be covered under our Survival Guarantee. Please read the full details here

  

Drop time: Sept-Jan

Growing zones: 3-9

Soil type: Marginal areas, field edges, streambanks, very adaptable and easy to grow. Tolerates moist soils and drought very well.

pH: 6.0-8.0 

Sun: Prefers full sun but can tolerate some shade 

Pollination: Needs at least 2 trees for pollination 

Size when shipped: 1yr old approx. 16-36in

Testimonials

★★★★★

I have ordered and planted well over 100 trees online from various wildlife tree sellers, including the big name brands, and the trees I just received from Whitetail Hill Chestnuts are the best looking trees I have ever received... EVER!  They are easily 2 feet tall and full of big green leaves. They will make a great addition to my deer and turkey hunting property in Oklahoma and I'm sure I will be ordering more!

Tim M.
Oklahoma
★★★★★

Ordered three of these to see how they looked. Wish I would of ordered more. They arrived fast and look really good. Will order more next season.

Nick E.
Tiffin, Ohio
★★★★★

The trees arrived in good condition and are doing good. I would definitely recommend.

Scott F.
Goose Creek, South Carolina
★★★★★

The trees were delivered in great condition, well packaged and very healthy.  I hope they grow up fast!

Dave P.
Woodville, Wisconsin
★★★★★


I ordered trees from Whitetail Hill they shipped my trees July 12 Priority Mail and were scheduled to arrive Thursday July 15th. When they didn't arrive on the 15th I checked the USPS tracking number that I was provided and USPS just kept telling me each day after that they were scheduled to arrive late. I emailed Whitetail Hill on July 19th and got a prompt response from Caleb H. My question to him was that if my trees did arrive what he thinks they would be alive he said there was a good chance that they wouldn't be and that he would do anything he could to help make the order right.


USPS finally delivered my trees on July 22nd. 7 days late on delivery with the box ripped in half. I open the package expecting to find my dead trees since they'd been in a box for 11 days to my surprise the trees were as green as ever. This just goes to show the quality of trees that these guys grow and send to us. I would highly recommend these guys and have already placed another order for more trees.

Jason R.
Mount Vernon, Kentucky
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