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The Brandon Sun
April 24, 2025
The fascinating and fun world of Franken-treesImagine having a tree in your yard that produces all kinds of apples — a different type on every branch. They’d produce different coloured blossoms. The apples would be different colours and different shapes. They’d each have their own flavour. You could call it a Franken-tree and (depending on your tastes in fiction) it could be something out of either Dr. Seuss or Mary Shelley … except that it’s not fiction. This tree actually exists. Doug McGregor is the owner of just such a curiosity. “I have a tree in my driveway with about 10 kinds of apples on it,” says McGregor, who owns and operates Oak Summit Nursery (oaksummitnursery.ca), a mail order fruit tree nursery near Brandon. “It has branches with apples that ripen in July and then some that ripen in September. Instead of having too many apples all at once, you can walk by this tree any day from summer through fall, and pick an apple.”...
The Winnipeg Free Press
March 8, 2025
"Oak Summit Nursery, located just outside Brandon, is a craft-scale mail-order nursery specializing in cold-hardy nut (oaks, walnuts, butternut, hazelnut) and fruit plants. Choose from bare-root or one-year-old potted plants. Owner Doug McGregor is preparing to ship plants starting April 1..."
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/homesite/news/reno-homes/2025/03/08/shell-we
The Brandon Sun
March 6, 2025
"The Westman Gardeners Club will hold its regular meeting in the Central Community Centre (529 Fourth St.) at 7 p.m. Program topic is nursery propagation for trees and woody perennials using different techniques. Speaker: Doug McGregor, owner and operator at Oak Summit Nursery, a mail-order fruit tree nursery."
https://www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/03/06/lets-do-something-march-6-2025