Montana Heritage Orchard Trees for Sale
The Montana Heritage Orchard program provides heritage orchards across Montana with resources to preserve their orchards, document Montana's fruit growing history and propagate heirloom and lost apple cultivars for backyard and commercial production.
To support the administration of this program and further preserve tree genetics, a retail tree propagation program has been created. The following nurseries have participated in the program and can be contacted to see what trees they have available. Follow this link to see a full catalog of the trees sold as part of the Montana Heritage Orchard Program.
2021 Participating Nurseries
Gardenwerks, Helena
Canyon Creek Nursery, Billings
Delaneys, Polson
Fancy Plants, Missoula
Tizer Gardens, Jefferson City
2020 Participating Nurseries
Tizer Gardens, Jefferson City
Gardenwerks, Helena
Good Earth Works, Billings
Cashman Nursery, Bozeman
Fancy Plants, Missoula
2019 & 2018 Participating Nurseries
K&S Nursery,Corvallis
Fancy Plants, Missoula
Delaneys, Polson
Billings Nursery & Landscaping, Billings
Good Earth Works, Billings
Tizer Gardens, Jefferson City
Gardenwerks, Helena
Cashman Nursery, Bozeman
Blake Nursery, Big Timber
Spring 2021 Trees
In 2021, we focused on seedling trees found near heritage orchards and along roadsides in Montana. These wild offspring of probably MacIntosh and Duchess are both packed with flavor and offer a unique addition to any home collection of Montana apples. Selected for lack of visible disease, unique flavors and appearance, these one of a kind apples have withstood the test of time along Montana roads and creeks.
Summerdale
This beautifully striped apple set against a green background begs to be polished and presented to your favorite teacher. The pronounced white lenticels cover the apple like stars but the real beauty is in the perfumed crunch of this sweet apple, bursting with the nostalgic flavor of an old time McIntosh. Ripens early to mid-September. Best if eaten fresh!
Luella Moon
Named for the homestead's matron Luella Moon, this seedling apple was uncovered while clearing brush near a creek by the Moon Randolph Homestead and Orchard outside Missoula, MT. The nearly yellow apple is splashed with stripes reminiscent of a Duchess of Oldenburg but with the unique conical shape of the Yellow Bellflower. While not the sweetest apple in the bunch this late ripening tree will please the palate with its almost pearlike flavor when your summer apples have all gone to mush.
Moon-Randolph
This large apple begins ripening in August with harvestable apples throughout September. With a crisp bite and carmine stripes set against yellow skin these fruit will impress the grower with their flavor, size and versatility.
Register Your Heritage Tree
If you've already purchased heritage fruit trees through our program, registering your trees will help us collect important information about the tree’s success in areas across the state.
