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About our annual HFS Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Days
Each winter, the Society runs several free public Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Days. In most years, one of these is held at the HFS Heritage Block at Petty's Orchard, and another at CERES in Brunswick. These are our biggest public-facing events of the year, where visitors can:
obtain scion (budwood) from many of our hundreds of varieties of apples and other fruits
request on-site grafting of apple scion onto suitable rootstock we provide (please note: we do not sell ungrafted rootstock separately)
purchase from amongst a range of pre-grafted ready for planting out
Pick up young trees pre-ordered for our range from our online store https://heritage-fruits-society.square.site/
observe experienced and friendly HFS volunteers as they graft up new trees
ask our knowledgeable volunteers about all aspects of the above
join a guided walking tour of the HFS Heritage Block (at the Petty's Orchard Grafting Day only)
At each of these events, scion and freshly-grafted trees are also sold at vary reasonable prices. This is in line with our group's objective of making it easy for everyone to help in the preservation of unusual fruit varieties, as well as instilling an interest in this precious and remarkable field. The scion and tree varieties provided are primarily ones popular with attendees of prior Apple Tastings or Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Days, and are ones which are typically difficult or impossible to obtain from any other source.
What we sell
About what we sell
The current list of apple varieties we have in our collection at Petty's Orchard is Apple Varietys In Our Collection. We typically offer scion from about a quarter of the listed varieties, selected based on popularity from prior years’ sales and feedback from our autumn Apple Tasting events.
Due to variations in the maturity of source trees and their growth, we cannot guarantee that scion for a particular variety will be available. If a specific variety is a ‘must-have’ for you, please email us its details, and we will let you know whether we can provide viable scion for it.
Also, only a limited range of varieties of apple scion will be available at our event at CERES. These varieties are shown in blue in the list (once they are determined).
We normally graft our apple trees on the day onto MM102 rootstock, which is suitable for trees in suburban gardens. However, we also sell a limited number of one-year-old trees with popular heritage varieties grafted onto M26 and MM102 rootstock. These are sold in our online store https://heritage-fruits-society.square.site/ , pick up only from Petty's Orchard
Our prices for apple scion/trees are as follows:
Scion (each will have at least three buds)
$4.00 per scion; $3.00 each for three or more scion of one variety
Trees grafted on-the-spot on our Grafting and Tree Sales Days (not including scion)
$20.00
Price for each additional graft to a tree (not including scion)
$10.00
One-year-old pre-grafted apple trees
$30.00
A range of varieties of other fruit tree types (e.g. plums, pears, cherries, apricots and more) will also be available for sale at our Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Day at Petty's Orchard, all offered at reasonable prices.
Please note that discounts on the prices given above are given to financial HFS members – see our Members page for details. You may find our prices to be surprisingly low compared to other suppliers, and for good reason: HFS’s main purpose is to ensure that special old fruit varieties will survive us all, and every tree we provide helps that to happen.
And if you have specific or unusual requirements beyond what is described here – for example, if you need a tree to be grafted onto a specific type of rootstock – please send us your request by email to heritagefruitssociety@gmail.com . We will do our best to help!
To further whet your appetite, here is our publicity poster showing details of each of the HFS Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Days:
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