Oak Summit Nursery is a craft scale, mail order fruit tree nursery based in southern Manitoba. We specialize in growing cold hardy fruit trees, berry bushes, and native perennials that can thrive in our cold climate on the Canadian prairies. Our seed shop features a wide selection of tree and perennial as well as garden seeds, including many hard to find options that we collect to grow in our nursery. We ship seeds worldwide, and trees and plants inside of Canada.

** Spring shipping update ** Our bare root and potted pre-orders are closed for the season. Our next plant sale will be coming up in the fall. Thank you to everyone who ordered over the winter! While we ship seeds year round, our shipping season for trees runs through April.

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Herb Garden Seeds

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Seeds

  • Our 2025 bare root & potted tree catalog

    Now open for reserving your spring order. When you add our trees or bushes to your cart you can choose your preferred shipping time in April. We recommend later in April for the Canadian prairies, and early April if you're in warmer parts of the country.

    This year we've also added locally sourced black walnut, butternut, a selection cold hardy grapes, and we've doubled the number of berry bushes. If you're into berries, you'll find we're now offering a fun selection of hard to find currants and gooseberries.

    While we ship seeds worldwide year-round, our trees are available for shipping within Canada only. If you order trees and seeds we'll ship your seeds right away by letter mail.

  • Bare Root & Pot Sizes

    When you browse our stock, note that most of our one year old plants are in pots, and our larger 2-3 year old stock is bare root. We've included the size options for each listing, so when you see 2.5" Pot (6-10") that means we've graded our stock and selected all the best 6-10" tall plants for sale and they'll be in a small pot. Bare root trees will be packed in a bag with some damp hardwood shavings. Our grafted trees are all bare root and include apples, pears and plums.

  • Automatic Discounts

    Seeds
    10% off 2 packs
    15% off 3 packs
    20% off 5 packs
    25% off 20 or more packs

    Trees
    5% off at $100
    10% off at $250,
    15% off at $500.

  • 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.

Blog posts

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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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