Welcome to Oak Summit Nursery
** Shipping Update ** The Canada Post strike is now resolved and we're back to shipping seed orders through our post office.
At Oak Summit we grow fruit trees, berry bushes, and native perennials that thrive in our cold Canadian climate. We offer a wide selection of seeds from our shop, and a big part of the nursery is collecting local seeds with the most cold hardy genetics from around southern Manitoba in USDA climate zone 3b.
Fall through winter is the right time to get started with many perennial seeds because they often need a period of cold stratification. You can start them indoors or plant outside to naturally have the temperature and moisture conditions through winter for them to germination in the spring.
Our 2025 bare root & potted tree catalog is now open for spring shipping, when you add to your cart you can choose either the first or second half of April. We recommend later in April for the Canadian prairies, and early April if you're in warmer parts of the country. When you browse our stock, note that most of our 1 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. 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 contact you about shipping to see if you want the seeds shipped right away, often you'll want to get tree and perennial seeds ahead of time to start the cold stratification.
We offer automatic discounts for larger orders:
Seeds: 10% off 2 packs, 15% off 3 packs, 20% off 5 packs, and 25% off 20 packs.
Trees: 5% off at $100, 10% off at $250, and 15% off at $500.
While we ship seeds worldwide year-round, our trees are available for shipping within Canada only. If you order trees and seeds we'll contact you about shipping to see if you want the seeds shipped right away, often you'll want to get tree and perennial seeds ahead of time to start the cold stratification.
Seeds: 10% off 2 packs, 15% off 3 packs, 20% off 5 packs, and 25% off 20 packs.
Trees: 5% off at $100, 10% off at $250, and 15% off at $500.
Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes and other PerennialsBrowse our stock of bare root & potted fruit trees, nut trees, berry bushes, grapes, native trees and perennials for spring shipping.
Large Nuts & Tubers (Canada Only)
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Black Walnut Seeds (Juglans nigra) - (Zone 3) - 8 Walnuts
Regular price $11.95 CADRegular priceUnit price per -
Butternut Seeds (Juglans cinerea) - (Zone 3) - 8 Butternuts
Regular price $11.95 CADRegular priceUnit price per -
Common Comfrey - (Symphytum officinale) - (Zone 3) - 5 Root Cuttings
Regular price $14.95 CADRegular priceUnit price per -
Jerusalem Artichoke Tubers - Beaver Valley Golden - (Helianthus tuberosus) - (For Seed) - (Zone 3) - 5 Tubers
Regular price $14.95 CADRegular priceUnit price per
Seeds
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
