Planting bare-root fruit trees is easy to do and a great way to save money. Of course, you can always check out your local nurseries to see what they have in stock but the other option is to purchase them through fruit tree catalogs. Nothing beats receiving catalogs in the mail, sitting in a cozy chair while flipping through pages of fruit tree varieties to find the perfect tree for your yard or garden. By simply perusing the fruit tree catalogs online, you’ll find more fruit tree variety options than most nurseries can carry on a local level. This is but a sample of fruit tree catalogs available to home gardeners.
Fruit Tree Catalogs
- Guerneys – Gurney’s is a well-loved nursery from way back. They have terrific, and easy–to-grow fruit and nut trees available, including the smaller fruit tree varieties so that no matter what kind of garden space you have, you’re going to enjoy growing your own fruit. They all come pre-pruned and ready to plant.
- Fedco Seeds – Fedco’s primary focus is on cold-hardy plant varieties that are especially suited for the demanding Northeast climate. They offer great products and cultural hints, while encouraging sustainable growing practices. Fedco has certified organic cultivars and regional heirloom varieties from all over the world.
- Stark Bros – You can’t go wrong with Stark Bros; they boast the very best in fruit trees and landscaping products. And why shouldn’t they? There’s 200 years of awesome plant producing going on here. Get over there and claim your catalog.
- Nature Hills – Nature Hills focuses on offering orchard quality fruit trees for the home gardener and small orchard. This website is loaded with all-things-gardening including ornamental plants.
- Raintree Nursery – Raintree nursery has over 800 varieties of combined fruit trees, berries, unusual edibles, and ornamentals. They’ve been shipping their plants all over the US since 1972.
- Miller Nurseries – They’re a family owned business that takes pride in bringing you one of the largest selections of fruit and nut trees, berries, grapes and much more. They boast 65 varieties of apples, all kinds of of berry plants, cherry, peach, nectarine, plum, pear trees, including Asian pear varieties.
- Bay Laurel Nursery – This California based nursery’s online catalog has hundreds of varieties of fruit trees, shrubs and vines for you to drool over. The have many unusual and hard-to-find varieties, as well.
- Trees of Antiquity – This is a California based company that grows and ships organic fruit trees across the country and has been for over 30 years. This nursery does its own tree planting, grafting, pruning, weeding, watering and harvesting. This is a wonderful source for heirloom fruit trees and you know how much I adore the heirlooms.
- Johnson Nursery – This company specializes in apple tree varieties has been very well-received on Dave Garden. They carry disease-resistant standard and small fruit trees and small fruit for the home garden. They also have antique fruit tree varieties.
- Peaceful Valley – Peaceful Valley offers varieties including the most popular fruit trees such as the 3-in-1 multi-fruit trees, apple trees, apricots, pears, cherries, nectarines, peaches, persimmons, Asian pears, European & Japanese plums, and pluots.
For more on fruit trees, check out How to Choose Bare-Root Fruit Trees For the Home Orchard.