What is Wafler Nursery?

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Wafler Nursery is a fruit tree nursery that specializes in custom-budded apple and pear trees, offering over 200 varieties across multiple rootstocks. It serves two distinct customer groups — commercial growers and backyard growers — and ships bareroot trees throughout the US and Canada. If you are looking for apple, pear, or stone fruit trees in commercial quantities or in small backyard orders (25 trees or less), this nursery is built for exactly that.

What Wafler Nursery grows

The nursery's core product is custom-budded apple and pear fruit trees. According to the site, it grows 200+ varieties and offers them on multiple rootstocks — the rootstock is the part of the tree that controls size, anchorage, and soil adaptation, while the budded variety determines the fruit. Stone fruit trees are also listed among its offerings.

The nursery describes its mission as continuing a 60-year tradition of supplying "the healthiest and highest quality fruit trees in America and Canada."

Two customer tracks

Wafler Nursery splits its offerings by buyer type, and the distinction matters because order size and tree selection differ.

Track Who it's for Order size What's offered
Commercial Growers Orchards and commercial operations Larger volumes Bareroot trees, a list of commercial varieties, shipping across the US & Canada
Backyard Growers Home growers 25 trees or less Backyard fruit tree varieties, with a "Buy Now" purchase path

If you are planting a home orchard or just a few trees, the backyard track is the relevant one. If you are establishing or replanting a commercial block, the commercial variety list is the starting point.

Shipping and additional supplies

  • Trees: Bareroot trees can be shipped throughout the US and Canada.
  • Orchard supplies: The nursery also offers a list of orchard supplies. These are ordered by contacting the nursery directly — supplies can be shipped or picked up at the nursery.

Where to start

  • Commercial growers: Review the commercial varieties list and inventory before ordering.
  • Backyard growers: Browse the backyard varieties and use the Buy Now option for orders of 25 trees or less.
  • Supplies: Contact the nursery to place an order.
  • Full details: A 2026 catalog is available as a PDF download from the site.

The nursery also publishes blog guidance on related decisions — choosing the right apple or pear tree for your yard, storing apples and pears after harvest, and why backyard fruit trees may need support. These are useful if you are still deciding what to plant or how to manage trees after they arrive.