Honey Tree Orchard & ApiaryCedar Bluff, Virginia
Grassy lane between rows of apple trees under a blue sky at Honey Tree Orchard & Apiary, Cedar Bluff, Virginia

Coming Early 2027 · By Inquiry

Heirloom Tree Propagation

For the tree that raised you.

Tell us about your treeCall 276-701-5949
Young apple trees with a row of bee hives at the edge of the orchard, Honey Tree Orchard & Apiary

I The Same Tree, Continued

Some trees aren’t on any list

The one by your grandmother’s porch. The apple your family has picked every October for three generations. The last tree standing on a homeplace that’s been sold.

An apple can’t be grown true from seed. The only way to carry a tree forward is to graft it: join a living cutting from the original onto new roots. The new tree isn’t a cousin or a lookalike. It’s the same tree, continued.

II How It Will Work

From winter wood to a young tree

  1. Deep winterFrom mid-January to early March, while the tree is dormant, a few pencil-thick shoots from last summer’s growth are cut, wrapped, and sent to the orchard. Where we can, we’ll come collect them ourselves.
  2. Early springEach cutting is hand-grafted onto hardy rootstock you choose: a full-sized tree like the original, or something smaller for a modern yard.
  3. ThenYour young tree is collected that spring as a fresh graft, or grown on at the orchard for a season, and goes home with a record of its origin.

A word of honesty.

Old trees give old wood, and not every graft takes. We’ll do everything grafting allows, and we’ll tell you plainly what we see in your wood.

III Availability

Very limited numbers each winter

Coming soon, expected early 2027, by inquiry. Not yet available for sale while our Virginia plant-inspection licensing is completed.

Places will be limited each winter. Join the list and we’ll write before the collecting season begins.

Join the List

Tell us about your tree

Send a note about the tree you’d like to carry forward, and we’ll be in touch before the collecting season.

Email to join the listOr call 276-701-5949
Status
Coming soon, expected early 2027. By inquiry, in very limited numbers each winter.
Email
drgoss@honeytreeorchard.com, subject “Custom grafting list”
Phone
276-701-5949
Tell us
Where the tree stands, its story or name if you know it, and how many new trees you’d like.

Graft your own? Scion Wood from the Collection is also coming in early 2027.