Our own tree nursery

Tree nursery

Update, 29 May 2026: several trees in our nursery are ready for planting. Please contact us with any questions.

In our own small nursery, we propagate the varieties that have performed particularly well here. We can supply plants to end consumers, but not businesses or resellers. We do not supply scion wood. Current price: three-year-old tree, CHF 75.

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Unique variety diversity

Unique variety diversity

Our nursery preserves the diversity of our own robust and rare fruit varieties, found nowhere else in Switzerland.

Organic growing

Organic growing

All plants are grown in a mix of organic growing medium and our own compost, without crop protection products or fertilisers.

Robust plants

Robust plants

Without crop protection products, only the strongest plants are selected, hardened from the very beginning.

True-to-variety grafting

True-to-variety grafting

Every graft is labelled twice to prevent mix-ups and ensure the highest quality and varietal purity.

Step 1: selecting and propagating varieties

Our nursery propagates the varieties that have performed particularly well here. These varieties are not inventoried in Switzerland or held in other collections, so we produce them ourselves.

Young heritage apple plants in a pot of organic growing medium
Photo: Gaëtan Bally/Keystone-SDA

Step 2: growing in organic soil

Plants grow in a mixture of organic growing medium from Biogärtnerei Neubauer and our own compost. We want to raise our proven, robust and most interesting varieties without crop protection products or fertilisers.

Step 2: growing in organic soil
Photo: Gaëtan Bally/Keystone-SDA

Step 3: hardening the plants

Without crop protection products, plants are hardened from the start. Only the strongest survive, while weaker specimens are removed.

Step 3: hardening the plants
Photo: Gaëtan Bally/Keystone-SDA

Step 4: growing until ready to plant

The grafted plants grow on in planting bags until ready for planting. We graft exclusively onto seedling rootstocks, so all trees can grow very large and are suitable for traditional orchard meadows.

Step 4: growing until ready to plant
Photo: Gaëtan Bally/Keystone-SDA

Step 5: visiting the trial orchard

Our trial orchard lets you inspect hundreds of apple varieties on trees kept low. Another garden brings together almost 80 pear varieties from around the world, allowing their distinctive traits to be compared in a small area.

Step 5: visiting the trial orchard

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