Try Concord Nurseries, Inc.

welcome .... try google ... but i didnt find any, but i didnt go thru all the pages ....

there are trees and plants that i have been looking for for decades .... pix and info published .... no stock to be found ....

and .... you have gone crazy within two weeks???? yikes ....

first... norway maples are one of the worst trees to plant.. period... you will be hard pressed to even grow grass under them in the future.. let alone anything else .. because the shade is so dense.. as are the surface roots ... and perhaps a reason that they are no longer produced .....

so if you have any dreams of planting a garden under your trees .... then avoid norways ...

second ... why would you want more than one???? think of your garden as a collection .. and diversify you dreams.. and your trees .... and by the time you get near to filling up the yard... MAYBE you will find one of these.. and have a spot left for it ...

and finally .. tree planting time in z6 is october or late next march .. you have plenty of time to find them.. IF you really want a monoculture ....

all that said.. hit the link ... call them.. but discuss whether july/august is good shipping time .... since its not good planting time anyway ...

good luck

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link

Ken is right. Monocultures are a bad thing. If just one tree gets sick, you have problems. If only one is damaged, then you have a gap in your row of trees that sticks out like a soar thumb. Even worse, if one tree in a monoculture gets sick or suffers from pests, often the problem can spread quickly to the other trees and all your trees go down together.

This cultivar doesn't fruit much, if at all so a planting of them would not contribute to the Norway maple weediness problem.

From what I can ascertain, the reason that the demand for this particular cultivar went down is because it wasn't well received by the public. It doesn't provide any shade to speak of and most people just didn't like the shape of it.

If your heart is set on it, do you have a local (privately owned) nursery who would special order it for you?

Here is a link that might be useful: winter lollipop

Ironically, it is just the thing for a great many users who instead plant or take charge of normal growing trees and then mal-prune them into tight shapes. Here I am even seeing established shade trees planted in front of businesses pruned to begin the year with nothing but a trunk, a sort of pollarding plus.

Forest Farm carries it, but it's very expensive - $39.00 plus huge shipping charges to the east.
I can't make a direct link to it, but you can find it yourself from FF's home page.
Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: Forest Farm

Top-grafted and slow-growing so a certain minimum amount of money will have to be spent wherever purchased.

Thanks everyone for your replies!

Snooper, I called Concord Nurseries and they don't sell this tree anymore. He said the demand went down for it. He said that demand goes up and down for all trees and that the Globe Norway Maple is a great and hardy tree and good luck on finding it.

Ken, I understand what you are saying about monocultures, but this is not a garden. I am lining one side of my property with the trees, not making a garden or anything close to it. This is our taste and just as I am sick and tired of seeing Crimson Kings and Red Maples up and down my road, i have to respect such property owner's taste. We happen to love the look of this tree and we also are happy it doesn't get too tall because of power line issues.

I found a nursery in a nearby county who will be able to easily get the trees for me come spring. He said he sells the trees from time to time and that he personally likes them but their popularity waxes and wanes. I am very happy to be able to now put this tree searcg anxiety to rest. lol

I am sorry to hear that you have had trouble locating items for so long. I am sure me griping about a few weeks must have come across as petulant and I apologize. I have never even planted a flower before so this is all knew to me. Just last week I planted grass seed and today saw some grass start to perk up through the grass seed. I felt like I had won the lottery. lol Hey, it's a start?

Thank you for your link. I called them and they had 4 of them, but I need 5. One of the four was "bushier" than the other too she said. We want 5 from the same grower as I have heard that is better instead of buying one here and 3 from there....

Brandon, I will be babying these trees like you wouldn't believe; already looking at tree shelters and protectors for them. lol I won't let a pest issue even begin, but if it does I'll be on top of it so it won't get out of hand. I have been reading it is a pretty hardy tree....

rhizo, I can't believe more people don't love this tree, but people in Oregon and Canada (about 2 hours from here) are growing this tree all over the place so there IS demand somewhere, especially when the several places I called in Oregon only had a few left. We love the tree. It's the shape that makes it so beautiful imo. Everyone around here has the exact same thing so we look forward to providing a little variety for people.

Misshenry, I called ForestFarm and yes they told me $39 for the tree and $85 for delivery for each tree. Considering the prices of some other trees we had earlier considered from nurseries around here, that were running $170-300 a tree, we considered FF's price, even with shipping, to be a bargain.

Bboy, tell me how you really feel about the tree? lol You think it looks like the end result of mal pruning? Yikes. If you saw the moncoulture of all that is in my area you would long for something different. I think Crimson Kings and Red Maples, all Oaks, and Christmas trees grown for privacy, which is done all the time around here, one of the most yawn-inducing things you can do to your yard, but like in all things, your mileage may vary.

Thanks again, everyone, for your replies and help. I was directed to nurseryguide.com by a grower which led me to a grower in OR which then they gave me a list of growers in my area that ordered from them and the rest is history.

Now the hard part is the wait til spring....Have a good weekend everyone.