Live Oak
Live Oak
Live Oak
Live Oak

Live Oak

$18.99
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Orders close when we run out

You're making an investment in your land — protect it. Each kit has a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block for one tree. The tube keeps deer and rabbits off and can double your growth rate; the fertilizer feeds the tree through its first season. Plant with a kit, follow the Growing Guide, and your trees are covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee.

Planting without kits — I'll protect my trees myself (no guarantee).
1-Year Survival Guarantee
Grown by Hunters in Cherokee, AL
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Spring 2027 shipment · ships at planting time for your region · See your ship dates
Live Oak
$18.99
The Details

What you're planting

Drop Time
Oct – Dec
First Crop
10–15 years
Produces
Every year
Pollination
Plant 2 or more
Zones
7–10
Sun
Full sun
Soil & Site
Adapts to most soils including low ground. pH 4.5–7.0.
Size & Spacing
40–60ft · plant 80ft apart

Spreading oak with heavy acorn crops

Orders placed now are for Spring 2027 shipment

We take orders in advance and ship at the proper time for spring planting in your region — mid-December in the Deep South through the end of May up north. Pick your state under "When Will My Order Ship?" below and you’ll see your exact ship dates. Get your order in now, we sell out early every season!

Live Oak

Live oaks are a popular landscape tree due to their spreading growth form and low branches but they also make a great tree for wildlife. They produce heavy crops of acorns that provide food for deer, bobwhite, squirrels, and turkeys. Live oaks create a large spreading canopy that would make a great spot for your next tree stand.

Plant each tree with one of our Survival Kits (a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block), follow our planting instructions, and it’s covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee. Full details here.

Drop time: Oct-Dec

Growing zones: 7-10

Soil type: Adapts well to most soils, tolerates marginal sites and low ground

pH: 4.5-7.0

Sun: Full sun

Pollination: Needs at least 2 trees for pollination

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

Spacing: 80ft

Don't Pick One

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By November most acorns have been mopped up and the woods go quiet. Late Drop Hybrids are selected to drop Nov–late Dec, right when deer have the fewest options. Our recommendation: a 1:1 mix.

Before You Order

Questions we get about Live Oak

This tree

The deep South — zones 7–10. They're evergreen, they handle low ground and marginal sites, and they produce heavy crops of small acorns that deer and turkeys both use.

10–15 years. Slow, but these are trees that stand for centuries.

80ft. Live oaks spread wider than they grow tall — don't crowd them.

Zones 7–10 only. If you're north of that, look at water oak or nuttall instead.

Every tree

We don't ship on the day you order. We take orders in advance and ship at the proper time for spring planting in each region — from mid-December in the Deep South through the end of May up north. Pick your state below to see your exact window. Orders placed after your region has already shipped go out within 5–10 business days.

We ship at planting time for your zone — mid-December in the Deep South through late May up north. Pick your state to see your window.

A Tree Pro grow tube and a slow-release fertilizer block for one tree. The tube protects the seedling from deer and rabbits and can double its growth rate; the fertilizer block feeds the tree through its first growing season. Every tree we ship is already inoculated with beneficial mycorrhizae, so there's nothing else to add — plant it in the kit, follow the Growing Guide, and it's covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee.

Plant with a Survival Kit and we guarantee the tree for a full year. If a tree dies within one year of the day it's delivered, we'll issue you store credit for what you paid for it. You don't have to worry about spending your money on something that may or may not make it.

To be covered, plant each tree with one of our Survival Kits (a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block), keep the tube on, and follow our planting instructions. Email us photos and your order number within a year of delivery.

For all details and conditions, see here: 1-Year Survival Guarantee

The Whitetail Hill difference

5 things we do that other nurseries don't.

We ship when it's time to plant

Not the day you order. Your trees go out in the spring planting window for your region — southern states first, then north as the ground thaws. You get an email with tracking before they leave the farm.

See your ship dates →

Sized to survive the move — on purpose

Everybody wants a bigger tree. We've planted thousands of both, and the smaller one wins. Ours ship at one year old, sized by variety, with a root system built to take off. A tree that size roots in fast and grows. A big tree spends its first two seasons recovering from the move, and often never catches up.

Only trees that earn a spot on hunting land

We're hunters. Every one of our 30+ varieties is picked for what it does for deer: when it drops, how hard it draws, whether it produces every year, and whether it'll grow on the rough ground food plots sit on. If it doesn't help you kill deer, we don't sell it.

We're here after the sale

Planting questions, a tube that blew over, a tree that's slow to leaf out — call or text 256-415-4085, weekdays 9–5, or email contact@whitetailhill.com. A real person answers.

Backed by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee

Plant it with a Survival Kit and follow the Growing Guide, and we guarantee every tree we ship for a full year from delivery. You won't find that from other nurseries.

Read the guarantee →
50,000+ happy customers · Grown by hunters in Cherokee, AL

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