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You can buy heritage fruit trees at grafting days or from heritage nurseries.

Grafting Days

What Happens on Grafting Days?
  • Learn techniques for grafting fruit trees
  • Select suitable rootstocks
  • Have new trees grafted by Society members - apples, plums and pears
  • Buy heritage fruit tree scion wood for home grafting
  • Buy one-year-old grafted trees
bud graft
Where and When?
  • Petty's Orchard:
    The first Sunday in August 10am - 4pm
    Petty’s Orchard, Homestead Rd,
    Templestowe, Vic. 3106, Australia
    Next Petty’s Grafting Day: Sunday 5th August 2012

  • CERES* (Centre for Education & Research in Environmental Strategies):
    The Saturday of the weekend following the Petty’s Orchard Grafting Day,
    10am - 4pm
    CERES Nursery, Ceres, Lee St.
    Brunswick East, Vic. 3057, Australia
    Next CERES Grafting Day: Saturday 11th August 2012

  • Werribee Park Heritage Orchard
    The third Saturday in August
    Werribee Park Heritage Orchard,
    Werribee Park, K Road,
    Werribee, Victoria, Australia
    Next WPHO Grafting Day: probably Saturday 28th July 2012
Watch this website for details. You can also subscribe to our newsletter.

Grafting Demonstration - the Whip & Tongue Method


Can't make it to a grafting day? We want to encourage the distribution of heritage fruit trees, so listed below are some links to nurseries that sell them.

Heritage Nurseries


* In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

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