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Fall plant sale

Potted trees and plants available for fall shipping.

Pots and plugs · Open through October 15

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Manchurian apricots grown in Manitoba

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Our fall selection includes fruit trees, berry bushes and herbaceous perennials in pots and plugs. Order through October 15 for fall shipping within Canada.

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Fall shipping is underway and runs through October. Shipping costs depend on your order and destination and are calculated at checkout. Seeds and plants are packed and shipped separately. Read the shipping information →

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A selection of plants available now for fall shipping.

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Currants and gooseberries

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Cold hardy plums

American and Canada wild plums, hybrid seedlings and grafted selections.

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Haskap plants

Cold hardy berry bushes with cultivars selected for fruit quality and overlapping bloom.

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Cold hardy grape vines

Table and wine grapes selected for northern gardens, available as potted vines and plugs.

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Cold hardy cherry plants

Nanking, sour cherry and chokecherry plants for fruit, preserves and northern landscapes.

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Wildflowers and perennials

Wildflowers, edible perennials and ground covers grown here in plugs and pots.

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Field Notes from the nursery

Photos and observations from propagation, seed collection, and the nursery.

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planting valiant grapes at the assiniboine food forest orchard, a local non profit in... - Grapes And Vines, September...Sep 21, 2026 · Grapes & Vinesplanting valiant grapes at the assiniboine food forest orchard, a local non profit in Brandon MB who has this community orchard and nature trails for the public to enjoy. We donated some grapes and a few wild plums and sandcherries grown from locally source seeds and cuttings, and a group of volunteers helped to plant this weekend. The perimeter fence is now completely lined with Valiant grapes and has some new trellis wire to support them, the older grapes are three growing seasons in and one reached the top. eventually the deer fence will be covered with grapes, and this cold hardy variety does well here in zone 3 southern MB without any winter protection. I leant my fencing expertise to help with the high tensile wires that were strung to give the grapes a space to grow and support inside the page wire, because curious deer are always trying to graze the leaves and we want to try and keep most of the vines and fruit out of reach. We also brought hardware cloth to help protect the small fruit trees from voles (which are controlled by mowing but still show up), and a butternut tree to round out a north corner.Read field note +3
H. sinsensis, a very late ripening and large sea buckthorn species. i have a graft here... - Grafting Work, September...Sep 21, 2026 · Grafting WorkH. sinsensis, a very late ripening and large sea buckthorn species. i have a graft here that's pollinated by a smaller shelterbelt type, and it fruits heavily every year but they aren't ripe until October. sometimes there's snow on the ground when I pick them, a real contrast to the more common ones I find in our area that ripen in july and august. photos taken sept 20 and the fruit are just starting to change color, they'll be bright orange next month.Read field note +2
a few larger fruiting hawthorns from a lakeside park location, I mixed these in... - Wildlife And Habitat, September...Sep 21, 2026 · Wildlife & Habitata few larger fruiting hawthorns from a lakeside park location, I mixed these in with other hawthorns collected this fall. the thorns are the same size and shape as the other bushes I've come across, and this tree is in a wet area with heavy soil so maybe that explains the fruit, and how none of the leaves have dropped, or maybe it's genetic. hawthorns a super high in pectin, if you blend them up and strain for a jelly even when mixed with water it sets up like hawthorn jello. I like hawthorns because they're a tough native fruit tree, the 2-3 inch long thorns are visually interesting, and they provide some safe habit for small wildlifeRead field note +4
a healed girdle from voles this spring. the cambium had just enough of a layer... - Apples And Crabapples, September...Sep 21, 2026 · Apples & Crabapplesa healed girdle from voles this spring. the cambium had just enough of a layer left to regenerate and bridge the span, a thin strip of intact bark kept the tree alive as well. this is about red wonder tree planted at a local orchard, and I was happy to see it pull through without needing to be regrafted. this winter this tree row has hardware cloth protection from small rodents who live under the snow and love to eat the tasty apple bark on young trees.Read field note +3
hawthorns loaded with ripe fruit in late september, I've collected these from a... - Berries And Currants, September...Sep 21, 2026 · Berries & Currantshawthorns loaded with ripe fruit in late september, I've collected these from a few stands and mix the lots together to grow, I haven't been able to find a good set of keys to discriminate our local hawthorn species and their hybrid so I'm just going with 'hawthorn' to describe them. some bushes have slightly larger fruit and ripen earlier, and one bush nearby get grazed by the deer more than the rest because it has fewer thorns, so there is some variation. the thorns are impressive. I've collected scions from this exact tree and grafted them onto saskatoon, and they fruit this year - one peculiar thing about the grafts is that the thorns often get secondary barbs.Read field note +3
hey our fall sale is on. taking orders and shipping until oct 15th for trees and... - Berries And Currants, September...Sep 17, 2026 · Berries & Currantshey our fall sale is on. taking orders and shipping until oct 15th for trees and plants to customers in Canada. basically oct 20 is the start of winter in Manitoba and we pack up the nursery in early November. So this fall I have for the first time a new set of currants and gooseberries where we might be the only nursery in the county growing, and also a whole set of wildflower plugs.. there's a good sized list, as a craft scale nursery run enthusiastically by me (Doug McGregor) there is rare and unusual variety because that's interesting and exciting to me, but for any one thing there's a small batch. I might grow one tray of a cultivar or species, but then try and explore more of the variation in that group. nearly everything is zone 3 cold hardy. there are some fun new additions like small sets of russian pears that are hard to find, and own rooted plums that's a rabbit hole I've gone down through experimentation. there's collections of native plants that I would like to see grown more widely like our native Canada Plum - the best pollinator for other plums, and Ribes Glandulosum - Skunk Currant - with it's sprawling shape and spikey red fruit. We also have seeds available for many of the plants we grow, it's the same seeds we use if you want to try out growing these in the spring, many perennials need some cold conditioning time so fall and winter is the right time to get the seeds. And fall is a good time to plant trees, you get the roots in the ground well insulated ahead of winter and they can take off in the spring.Read field note +2
collected the last of the wild plums yesterday, this selection (americana )... - Plum And Cherry Hybrids, September 2026Sep 13, 2026 · Plum & Cherry Hybridscollected the last of the wild plums yesterday, this selection (americana #2) ripens about 10 days later than most other wild plums, which is good to spread the season out - they were a solid bright green when the others were starting to drop. this is the first year I've had a crop on these grafts, the last photo shows the union where it's been top worked onto chokecherry. does wild plum graft well onto chokecherry? the answer is probably, though it seems to be about 75% for me, some grafts will fail in the first year. some in the second year can have subtle chlorosis, a yellow tinge to the leaves which is a sign of stress, but most of the time they're perfectly healthy like this one. I find it actually does even better as an interstem. can you just plant wild plums, well yes and long term that's going to work out better I expect, but in this case it was a large choke cherry bush in the yard and I was able to graft over one part of it, if they didn't work out the chokecherry will just rebound from the undergrowth and fill the space back in. it's faster, with a pollinator you're producing plums after one or two years. also in a landscape with dense mature shrubs, planting a seedling right in the mix would suffer for light and be low enough that deer and rabbits can eat it, where grafting at shoulder height solves both of those. so three advantages, plus you get to say your plums grow on a chokecherry tree.Read field note +2