Oak Summit Nursery is a craft scale, mail order fruit tree nursery based in southern Manitoba.

We are now open for bare root and potted plant orders. Seeds ship year round.

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At Oak Summit Nursery we specialize in growing cold hardy fruit trees, berry bushes, and native perennials that can thrive in our cold climate on the Canadian prairies. Most of our plants are cold hardy to zone 3 (-40C).

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 our trees, plants and scion wood ship inside of Canada.

You can reserve your order now for spring delivery. This includes potted and bare root trees, shrubs and plug bundles. We have a wide variety of grafted apples, pears and plums with limited stock in each cultivar, and an all new selection of hard to find berry bushes and native plants. Spring shipping is in late April at just the right time to plant.

Scion wood is now available. Yes you can combine seeds and plants into one order, and we'll ship the seeds now so that you have time to start them ahead of spring.

We offer discounts, and they're automatically applied at the checkout.

Seed discounts

  • 10% off when you add 2 seed packs
  • 15% off when you add 3 seed packs
  • 20% off when you add 5 seed packs
  • 25% off when you add 20 or more seed packs

Tree discounts

  • 5% off orders over $100
  • 10% off orders over $250
  • 15% off orders over $500
  • Apples Grafted Onto Saskatoon

    A group of apple grafts made in spring of 2022 onto wild Saskatoon trees near the nursery. We had some unexpected pruning by a curious rabbit in 2024, but after adding wildlife protection these bounced back and fruited in 2025 with a crop of September Ruby apples. We've been experimenting with apple, pear and plum graft compatibility onto our wild native fruit trees, with the benefit that they're perfectly adapted to our cold climate and sandy soil. These unconventional rootstocks are a fun grafting experiment with surprisingly good results. We have a few blog articles below about our ongoing field trials.

  • 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.

  • 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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