By choosing to purchase and plant trees from our sale, participants take an active role in promoting a healthier and greener Eagan. Individual contributions have a lasting impact on our community by ensuring that future generations will enjoy the many benefits that trees bring.

Forestry employees show off trees for sale

2026 Tree Sale

Eagan's Tree Sale opens Feb. 5. Trees are available for Eagan Residents only. When you head to our storefront, select your pickup time before selecting your tree(s). Pickup times are available to view now, but can't be reserved until Feb. 5 at 9 a.m.

Sale Terms

Cost is $45 per tree, with a limit of two (2) trees per household. Pick up day is May 2, 2026, at Central Maintenance Facility, 3501 Coachman Point, Eagan.

Available Species

American Sentry Linden

The American Sentry Linden (Tilia americana ‘McKSentry’) is a wonderful shade tree! Also known as Basswood, the tree offers a range of benefits, including shade, structure, and visual interest, and will undoubtedly become a valuable asset in your yard.

The American Sentry Linden starts out pyramidal in shape but becomes rounded at maturity. The American Sentry variety presents a pleasing, symmetrical profile through a very uniform branch structure. This gives the tree a strong foundation for its heart-shaped, serrated green leaves.

  • Fragrant spring flowers attract pollinators
  • Hardy Shade Tree
  • Spring and Fall Color
  • Some Resistance to Japanese Beetles
  • Foliage: Green
  • Mature Height: 40 - 45 feet
  • Mature Spread: 25 - 30 feet
  • Soil: Well Drained
  • Hardness Zones: 3-8
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Mature Form: Pyramidal, Broad
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Flower Color: Yellow
  • Fall Color: Yellow
  • Bloom Period: Spring

Bi-color Oak

The Bi-color or Swamp White Oak tree (Quercus bicolor), is a beautiful native tree with lustrous, heavy-textured leaves with wavy margins.

This rugged oak grows well in either upland or swampy areas. It is tolerant of poorly drained sites and is found in heavy, mucky soils. For a tree named Swamp White Oak, it has surprisingly good drought tolerance!

  • Shade tree
  • Wildlife tree
  • Widely adaptable
  • Foliage: Green Above, White Underneath
  • Mature Height: 50 - 60 feet
  • Mature Spread: 50 - 60 feet
  • Soil: Widely Adaptable
  • Hardness Zones: 4-8
  • Moisture: Tolerates Damp
  • Mature Form: Pyramidal to Broad
  • Growth Rate: Moderate
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun - Partial Sun
  • Flower Color: Insignificant
  • Fall Color: Yellow/Brown

Ironwood

Ironwood (Ostrya virginiana), also known as American Hop-hornbeam, is a resilient and refined native understory tree prized for its strength, adaptability, and subtle beauty. In the forest, it grows as an understory tree in deep shade, but in full sun it develops a strong, rounded crown and makes an attractive landscape tree.

Ironwood is one of Minnesota’s toughest native trees—highly hardy and able to thrive in shade, drought, and a variety of soils. However, it is sensitive to road salt, making it best suited for use as a landscape tree, understory accent, or naturalized woodland feature.

  • Native understory tree
  • Attractive bark and hop-like fruit clusters
  • Extremely Durable, Dense Wood (“Ironwood”)
  • Thrives in sun or shade
  • Widely Adaptable to Soils
  • Excellent Wildlife Value
  • Foliage: Dark Green
  • Mature Height: 40 - 50 feet
  • Mature Spread: 20 - 30 feet
  • Soil: Widely Adaptable
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Mature Form: Oval to Rounded
  • Growth Rate: Slow
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
  • Fall Color: Golden Yellow/Brown

Northen Acclaim® Honeylocust

The Northern Acclaim® Honeylocust is a medium-spreading upright shade tree renowned for its exceptional winter hardiness, surpassing standard cultivars. Originally introduced by North Dakota State University, this seedless variety maintains its vibrant bright green foliage throughout the summer, transitioning into a captivating golden-yellow hue in the fall.

A standout feature of this cultivar is its adaptability to various soil types; it thrives in well-drained soils and demonstrates tolerance to both acidic and alkaline pH levels. This tree is especially favored for landscaping projects where a resilient and visually appealing ornamental tree is desired.

  • Exceptional winter Hardiness
  • Vibrant Foliage
  • Versatile soil adaptability
  • Low maintenance
  • Foliage: Bright Green
  • Mature Height: 40 - 50 feet
  • Mature Spread: 30 - 35 feet
  • Soil: Well Drained
  • Hardness Zones: 3b-6
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Mature Form: Pyramidal, Upright Spreading
  • Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Fall Color: Yellow

Norway Spruce

The Norway spruce tree (Picea abies) is a hardy North American evergreen. It is long-lived and grows at a medium growth rate. When young, it presents an elegant, pyramidal form that matures into a tree with beautiful, upright, layered branching. Upright main branches are liberally covered with pendulous secondary branches that have a touch of pleasing “droop” to them. The overall look is one of graceful strength.

Young trees transplant easily and can grow several feet in a single season. Site selection is critical to ensure that the trees will thrive. Norway Spruce is a sun lover, and care should be taken when placing the tree. Give it plenty of room to reach its full height and spread as listed below.

  • Large Scale Conifer
  • Hardy & Easy-Care
  • Deer Resistant
  • Magnificent Wind Break
  • Tolerant & Resilient
  • Foliage: Evergreen
  • Mature Height: 50 – 70 feet
  • Mature Spread: 25 - 35 feet
  • Soil: Widely Adaptable
  • Hardness Zones: 2-8
  • Moisture: Moderate then Low
  • Mature Form: Pyramidal, Weeping
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun - Partial Shade

Prairie Fire Crabapple

The Prairiefire Crabapple is one of the most beautiful and reliable flowering crabapples available today—valued for its year-round color, disease resistance, and hardiness. This small ornamental tree delivers brilliant spring blooms, striking summer foliage, colorful fall fruit, and vibrant winter interest.

Prairiefire Crabapple is highly adaptable—tolerating clay soils, moderate drought, and urban conditions—while maintaining excellent resistance to common crabapple diseases such as apple scab and fire blight. It forms a balanced, rounded crown that makes it perfect as a specimen tree, accent planting, or grouped in small clusters for dramatic seasonal color.

  • Outstanding pink spring blooms
  • Purple to dark green foliage with orange fall color
  • Glossy red fruit persists into winter
  • Excellent disease resistance
  • Tolerant of clay soil, drought, and urban conditions
  • Year-round ornamental interest
  • Foliage: Green/Reddish
  • Mature Height: 15 - 20 feet
  • Mature Spread: 15 - 20 feet
  • Soil: Well Drained
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Mature Form: Upright, Rounded
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Fall Color: Orange
  • Pollinator Friendly: Yes

Sienna Glen Maple®

The Sienna Glen® Maple (Acer x freemanii ‘Sienna’) is a naturally occurring hybrid that was found on an abandoned farmstead in Lake Elmo, Minnesota! It has a distinct, upright, pyramidal growth habit which is readily apparent as a young tree, and becomes a broad pyramid when mature. Sienna Glen exhibits vigorous growth, and the branches are borne close together, fine-textured, and delicate. It features showy red flowers along the branches in early spring before the leaves appear.

The wood is harder, stouter, and exhibits less drooping. The smaller, finer-textured dark-green leaves have a silvery underside. The fall color is a mix of yellow, orange and red, and Sienna Glen® is one of the very hardiest red fall-coloring shade trees available!

  • Vigorous growth
  • Pyramidal habit
  • Cold hardy
  • Foliage: Green
  • Mature Height: 50 - 60 feet
  • Mature Spread: 35 - 40 feet
  • Soil: Widely Adaptable
  • Hardness Zones: 4-6
  • Moisture: Drought Tolerant
  • Mature Form: Broad, Pyramidal
  • Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Flower Color: Small Red
  • Fall Color: Yellow-Red
  • Bloom Period: Spring