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Apple Trees

Apple Trees

Apricot Trees

Apricot Trees

Sweet Cherry Trees

Sweet Cherry Trees

Tart Cherry Trees

Tart Cherry Trees

Peach Trees

Peach Trees

Pear Trees

Pear Trees

Plum Trees

Plum Trees

Nectarine Trees

Nectarine Trees

New arrivals

64 new varieties for spring 2027

It's a big year for apples. Here's everything new in the catalog at a glance. Tap a row to see the varieties.

  • 13 kinds of plants
  • 24 hardy through Zone 3
    rated to -40°F
  • 8 hardy through Zone 2
    rated to -50°F
See all the new arrivals

New this year, by kind

  1. Apple Trees
  2. Pear Trees
  3. Plum Trees
  4. Apricot Trees
  5. Peach Trees
  6. Cherry Trees
  7. Currant Shrubs
  8. Nectarine Trees

Also new: Crabapple Trees, Medlar Trees, Poplar Trees, Quince Trees, Raspberry Plants

4.8 out of 5

From 50 reviews on Google, as of September 2026

Read our reviews

  • Trees arrive healthy

    Packed well, pruned well, and more than a few customers say ours look a year older than what they got elsewhere.

  • Answers before and after

    Variety picking for your actual site, pruning advice, planting instructions, questions answered fast.

  • If it doesn't bud out

    You get a credit. From 2026 we credit the shipping on it too, proportionate to what failed.

Berries & Shrubs

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Woman in kitchen cooking with cherries

Not sure which variety?

Shop by what you'll make

Pies, cider, jam, a shelf of canned peaches, a hedge the birds will live in. Every plant we sell is scored for what it is actually good at. Check out this new feature! (p.s. Here is Elizabeth processing super yummy Lapins, one of the hardiest of the sweet cherries for us).

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Nut Trees

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Bulk & orchard pricing

The more trees in the cart, the less each one costs

Planting an orchard, a windbreak or a whole edible ecosystem? The discount climbs with the cart.

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Vines

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Videos we have sponsored

Cold-climate growing, on video

We sponsor Regenerative Fruit Growers on YouTube. Luke tastes the hardiest apricots with Bob Purvis, sits down with Bob for 40 years of lessons on fruit in extreme cold, and visits an off-grid orchard watered by gravity. One note on that last one: earthworks don't replace drip. In dry country, put drip on your trees first.

Cold Climate Apricot Growing with Bob Purvis

Bob Purvis walks through the hardiest prairie apricots (Westcot, Sunrise, Morden 604, Debbie's Gold and Brookcot, plus Precious and Zard) and taste-tests every one.

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Spread the harvest

Pick trees that ripen in turn, not all at once

Twelve apples that all come ripe the same week can be overwhelming (especially for newer growers). Here is what a spread season looks like in Missoula. The map moves every date to your own climate.

Open the Ripening Map
  1. June to Jul 10 Berry season Strawberries, honeyberry, rhubarb, asparagus
  2. Jul 11 to 31 Midsummer Gooseberries, currants, Juliet, Montmorency
  3. Aug 1 to 20 Late summer Westcot, Meteor, Lodi, Rescue
  4. Aug 21 to Sep 10 End of summer Carroll, Zestar, Chestnut, Pipestone
  5. Sep 11 to 30 Early fall Wealthy, Macoun, Bartlett, Honeycrisp, grapes
  6. Oct 1 to 15 Mid fall Seckel, Haralson, Spartan, Frostbite
  7. Oct 16 on Late fall Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, aronia, walnuts

Dates are Missoula. On the map you can set your own place if available (more locations coming soon) and see what will not ripen in time before your first hard freeze.

Natives & Hedgerow

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Four things decide it

What makes a fruit tree thrive in cold country

Dodge a late frost

Our latest bloomers

A hard frost in full bloom can take a year's crop, even on a tree that came through winter fine. The later a variety flowers, the more of those frosts it misses. These are the latest bloomers we grow in each fruit, listed roughly in the order the fruits flower.

  1. ApricotsUsually the first to flower

    Very late 7 of 7 Zard (Spring 2027), Wayne (Spring 2027)

    Late 6 of 7 Dr 606 (Spring 2027), Precious (Spring 2027)

  2. Peaches & nectarines

    Late 6 of 7 Glowingstar (Spring 2027)

    Mid-late 5 of 7 Risingstar (Spring 2027), Veteran (Spring 2027), Redstar (Spring 2027)

  3. Hybrid plums

    Late 6 of 7 La Crescent (Spring 2027)

    Mid-late 5 of 7 Pipestone (Spring 2027), Alderman, Superior (Spring 2027)

  4. Sweet cherries

    Late 6 of 7 Black Gold (Spring 2027), Gold (Spring 2027)

    Mid-late 5 of 7 White Gold (Spring 2027)

  5. Pears

    Mid-late 5 of 7 Cold Snap® (Spring 2027), Clapp's Favorite (Spring 2027), Clara Frijs (Spring 2027), Concorde (Spring 2027), Golden Russet Bosc (Spring 2027)

  6. Tart cherriesOurs top out at mid-season

    Mid 4 of 7 Evan's Bali (Spring 2027), Montmorency (Spring 2027), Meteor (Spring 2027), FE (Spring 2027)

  7. ApplesUsually among the last to flower

    Very late 7 of 7 Binet Rouge (Spring 2027), Ellis Bitter (Spring 2027)

    Late 6 of 7 Brown Snout (Spring 2027), Mother (Spring 2027)

Each fruit has its own seven-step scale, so a very late apricot still flowers before an early apple. If you plant an early bloomer, give it a spot where cold air drains away, not a low spot where frost settles.

Every fruit's bloom scale

Rootstocks

Pick the right rootstock

Here's what you trade going from a small tree to a big one. The right one comes down to your climate and what you want from the tree.

051015202530 ftsoil
Dwarfing6–12 ftBud 9, EMLA 26 Semi-dwarf12–18 ftBud 118, OHxF 87, native plum Full size20–30 ftDolgo, Siberian crab, Mahaleb
Dwarfing Semi-dwarf Full size
Vigor 25–50% 55–90% 100%
Age until Bearing 2–3 yrs 3–5 yrs 4-6 yrs
Fruit per sq ft Most Middle Least
Fruit per tree Least Middle Most
Stands on its own Stake it Varies Yes
Handles drought Drip it Some Best
Lifespan Shortest Middle Longest

Root hardiness doesn't follow size. Bud 9 is tiny, but its roots took about 10°F soil in freezing tests. EMLA 7 is bigger, and its roots died near 20°F. Seedling roots like Dolgo and Siberian crab are the hardiest of all.

Typical for apples. Bud 9 runs 6–10 ft. EMLA 26 runs 8–12 ft, but deep, fertile soil or a vigorous variety on top can push it to 14–15 ft. Soil, water and pruning move all of these.

Start with what you want

  • The coldest, most exposed spot A full-size seedling root: Dolgo or Siberian crab for apples, Ussurian for pears, Manchurian for apricots.
  • Fruit soon, in a small yard A dwarfing root like Bud 9 for apples (stake it for good). For sweet cherries, Gisela 12, our smallest cherry root, bears very young. Both want steady water, so put them on drip.
  • One tree, no stake, low fuss Bud 118. It carries about 90 of our apples and crabs, stands on its own and has very hardy roots.
  • The most fruit from a small patch Smaller trees planted closer together. A full-size tree gives the most fruit per tree, but dwarfs give the most per square foot.
  • A tree for your grandkids A seedling root. Slow to start, but it lives the longest and handles drought best.
  • Dry, limy ground or wet, heavy ground Dry and limy: Mahaleb or MaxMa 14 for cherries. Wet and heavy: Krymsk 86 for peaches and plums, Mazzard for cherries.

Your climate changes the answer. Where it can hit −40°F, we'd skip Geneva, EMLA and MM stocks, and doubly so with no steady snow cover, in an open field, or low where cold air pools. A good snowpack can keep the soil up to 20°F warmer than bare ground. Soil moves size too: Bud 118 is sold as a semi-standard, but in our dry, calcareous Montana soil it grows like a semi-dwarf.

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Garden & Seeds

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Our picks, not a catalog

The Best Of list

Out of everything we grow, these are the ones we would plant ourselves. Sorted by what you want to do with the fruit, and narrowed to a short list you can actually decide from.

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