Order Our Bare Root Trees For Spring Delivery

We're excited to share our updated website featuring all of the bare root stock we have packed away in our root cellar waiting for the spring shipping season. We've added a wide range of fruit trees and berry bushes, such as plums, pears, apples, cherries, haskaps, currants, gooseberries, mulberries, buartnut, bur oak, hazel, along with many other native trees and perennials.

We ship trees inside Canada and our seeds ship worldwide. If you make an order with both, we'll ship your seeds right away and then ship your trees on the spring date you select.

If you have any questions about ordering our trees or seeds please feel free to contact us.

A Small Nursery Startup on the Canadian Prairies

Oak Summit Nursery was founded in 2020 after years of interest in permaculture, grafting fruit trees and gardening. Gardening in our climate is tough, we only get a few months in the summer for vegetables and then you start over, but a fruit tree continues to grow and improve every year. After finally starting an orchard, which began to grow into a food forest, I soon made a goal to collect one of everything that can possibly grow here. Located in southern Manitoba, Canada in USDA zone 3 our nursery is nestled into an Aspen and Bur Oak forest on our 50 acre property. Growing trees takes some time and patience. What started in a few raised beds is about half an acre this year of beds full with tree seedlings and rooted cuttings. In our greenhouse we propagate many woody plant using softwood mist propagation, and in our beds we grow trees from locally collected seeds, hardwood cuttings, and by stooling/layering. This year our main feature is finally our grafted apple trees, which are a few years in the making. Our first collection of cultivar apples are some of the best cold hardy varieties, and maybe you haven't heard of them because you won't find them on the grocery store shelves. We have limited stock for this winter, sometimes just a few trees for one variety - so we're taking orders over the winter and we'll ship your trees any time from mid april to early may, right after the ground has thawed and the trees are still dormant, the perfect time for planting.

  • Apples Grafted Onto Saskatoon

    A group of apple grafts done in spring of 2022 onto wild Saskatoon tree near the nursery. This year we've been experimenting with both Apple and Pear graft compatibility with excellent results. The real test will be how well they surive for the first few winters and to see how they well produce fruit. Our native Saskatoon has been used in field studies as a dwarfing rootstock for pear and apple.

  • Root Stocks

    We grow our own seedling apple root stocks from locally collected apple seeds. Our largest Malus baccata (Siberian Crab Apple) trees are 20 years old and large healthy trees - proven fully cold hardy to our cold winters. Every year we collect the seeds and start a new crop of apple root stocks. After a year or two they're large enough to graft on the named cultivar of apple, and we then we grow the grafted trees for one final year in the nursery.

  • Forest Path

    One of the walking paths through the forest around our nursery. Mostly frequented by deer and our pet horses and donkey, this one is wide enough we can mow it through the summer. Many of the seeds we offer are collected along paths like this at the right time of year.

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  • Plums On The Prairies

    A great article detailing plum pollination and many of the Prunus species and cultivars hardy to the Canadian prairies. Written by Rick Sawatzky, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan.   Plums On the...

    Plums On The Prairies

    A great article detailing plum pollination and many of the Prunus species and cultivars hardy to the Canadian prairies. Written by Rick Sawatzky, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan.   Plums On the...

  • Growing Apple Trees From Seed

    I made a post recently to share my experience growing apples from seed, and I thought it would be good to make it an article here. If you want to...

    Growing Apple Trees From Seed

    I made a post recently to share my experience growing apples from seed, and I thought it would be good to make it an article here. If you want to...

  • 2022 Season Update - Grafting Pears and Plums t...

    Summary - After some initial successes and lessons learned, I started with new methods for the 2022 grafting season in May and tried about a dozen pear varieties and twice as many Prunus, all cold hardy to...

    2022 Season Update - Grafting Pears and Plums t...

    Summary - After some initial successes and lessons learned, I started with new methods for the 2022 grafting season in May and tried about a dozen pear varieties and twice as many Prunus, all cold hardy to...

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