Kankakee Nursery

05/27/2026

Feast your eyes on some of the best of the best at Kankakee available now! Message us to get your next truck of fresh top-quality Kankakee plants on its way to your door!

Shown here:

8’ Pyramidal Arb
#25 Bur Oak
#25 Cornus Kousa
#20 Spring Snow Crabapple
4” Swamp White Oak
7’ Ivory Silk Lilac clump
5-6’ Amelanchier canadensis
6’ Emerald Arborvitae
25 Heritage River Birch
6’ Eastern Red Cedar

05/08/2026

🚨🚨SALE ENDING TODAY🚨🚨

Today Friday 5/8 is the LAST day to take advantage of our 2.5” Ornamental Special! Kankakee has multiple varieties of pristine flowering Crabapples like these Red Jewels above ground and ready to ship. European Hornbeams and Flowering Hawthorn are also available at great pricing, but orders must be in by end of day today!

Assorted Crabapples (Adams, Donald Wyman, Red Jewel, Red Barron, Sugar Tyme) 2.5 $115
Rockhampton Red Hornbeam 2.5” $175
Winter King and Russian Hawthorn 2.5” $155

Stay tuned for next week’s above ground special! 👀👀

Also shown: scenes from the early May loading dock!

03/26/2026

Hello friends, our phone lines and internet are currently down. Please message us if you need to get in touch and we will respond as soon as possible.

We will keep you updated on the situation but hope to have it resolved shortly.

03/11/2026

03/09/2026

🌳SPRING HAS SPRUNG🌳

Message us for info on placing your Kankakee spring order!

02/24/2026

See you tomorrow !

02/23/2026

Kankakee is Cruisin’ the World at !

This classic arcade game will reside with us for the duration of the show, so cruise over to Booth 1720 and race your way through Times Square, Big Ben, the Egyptian Pyramids and more!

Prizes will be awarded to top times at the end of the show each day!

02/17/2026

Warmer temps this week have us thinking spring digging which is just under 3 weeks away!

Here’s a few unique Kankakee trees that are still available for spring!

1. Skinny Latte Coffeetree (Kankakee is one of the first nurseries in the country to grow and propagate this upright Coffeetree cultivar!)
2. Sucker Punch Chokecherry (sucker-free Prunus variety with improved branching structure over Canada Red)
3. Gladiator Crabapple (columnar crab variety with striking pink flowers in spring and disease-resistant, glossy, dark purple foliage throughout summer)
4. Spaeth’s Alder (fast-growing cultivar with excellent uniformity and branch structure and same, plus cool Alder fruit)

Message us to start or add to your spring order!

02/16/2026

Bare root trees have arrived at Kankakee, which means the new year is officially underway! Our guys are meticulously root pruning our new tree liner arrivals in our cold storage facility to make sure they are ready to flourish once they are planted in the ground or in pots this spring.

02/04/2026

has begun! Catch us in Booth #348!