{"id":32006,"date":"2020-10-30T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=32006"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:04:47","slug":"maryland-state-nursery-has-trees-available-for-spring-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/10\/30\/maryland-state-nursery-has-trees-available-for-spring-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Nursery Has Trees Available for Spring Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Time is Now to Think Spring<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48976482561_aa865b017b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of young trees growing at state nursery\" width=\"352\" height=\"198\" \/>Orders are now being accepted for the spring 2021 planting season for shrubs and trees from the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nursery.dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John S. Ayton\u00a0State Tree Nursery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, managed by the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u00a0Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trees benefit the environment as well as enhance natural habitat for birds, squirrels and other wildlife. Almost all trees and shrubs available for sale are native, and many are also pollinator-friendly.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMany of our customers are individual landowners who enjoy adding trees to their property for\u00a0beauty and conservation purposes,\u201d Maryland State Tree Nursery Manager Richard Garrett said. \u201cThe nursery seeks to provide exceptional customer service with high-quality seedlings at competitive prices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nursery offers more than 50 conifer and deciduous species each year, from loblolly pine to river birch, to meet a variety of aesthetic preferences and conservation needs. These shrubs and trees are ideal for buffer plantings, soil protection, watershed protection, wildlife habitat, or windbreak protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A minimum order of 25 seedlings per species is required.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nursery.dnr.maryland.gov\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supplies are limited<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time is Now to Think Spring Orders are now being accepted for the spring 2021 planting season for shrubs and trees from the\u00a0John S. Ayton\u00a0State Tree Nursery, managed by the\u00a0Maryland\u00a0Department of Natural Resources. Trees benefit the environment as well as enhance natural habitat for birds, squirrels and other wildlife. Almost all trees and shrubs<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/10\/30\/maryland-state-nursery-has-trees-available-for-spring-planting\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[3916,3590,5149,3636],"class_list":["post-32006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-john-s-ayton-state-tree-nursery","tag-native-trees","tag-plantings","tag-pollinators"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32008,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006\/revisions\/32008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}