The Garrett Soil Conservation District Store
Fruit Trees & Bushes
And Equipment Rentals
Your Purchase Helps the District help our community
Distribution day is Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17, 2026 at the Garrett Soil Conservation District office at 1916 Maryland Hwy, Mt. Lake Park, MD 21550.
WE DO NOT SHIP. Be advised that this is a fund-raiser for the Garrett Soil conservation District. All orders MUST BE picked up. If you decide to order despite the many notices throughout this site that we do not ship, and you cannot pick up, your order becomes a donation to the Garrett Soil Conservation District. WE CANNOT REFUND YOU! But we will donate your trees and bushes to a worthy charity in the area.
Why Buy?
Customized – All of our Trees and Bushes have been customized to Garrett County’s unique growing climate, with better cold-hardiness, more disease resistance, and deeper rooting to produce a sturdier tree with better drought tolerance.
Size Variety – We have dwarf, smaller semi-dwarf, and semi dwarf sizes this year.
Affordability – Our goal is to encourage tree planting, so pricing is as low as possible. Yet, quality is high. Trees will come 5′ to 6′ tall and most will have have 1/2″ to 5/8″ diameter trunks.
Helping the Community – This is a fundraiser, so proceeds from your purchase go toward helping us with outreach in our community.
Learn about which varieties will pollinate each other. Plus:
- Mature size
- Ripening Dates
- Cold-hardiness
Want to know what your trees and bushes will look like when you pick them up? Check out these photos from previous sales.
The GSCD Scholarship is just one of the outreach projects we support. Learn more about the scholarship and this year’s winners.
Fund Raiser
For Garrett Soil Conservation District
Purchase Online
Pick up on Distribution Day
Help the Environment
While helping the community
Fruit Trees
Selected to grow in our area. Apple, pear, cherry, northern peach, and plum trees.
Package Deals
Set of 4 blueberries that ripen consecutively.
Bushes
Fruit bushes. Blueberry, Raspberry, and Elderberry.
From Our 2025 Fruit Tree & Bush Sale
Why We Chose These Varieties
We have selected APPLE trees that are superior for different applications:
- Heirloom – Summer Rambo, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent, Northern Spy, Arkansas Black, Northwest Greening, Smokehouse
- Best Fresh Eating – Crimson Crisp, Red Jonaprince, Jonamac, Nova Spy, Summer Rambo, Northern Spy
- Apple Sauce – Yellow Transparent, Grandma’s applesauce apple; Wolf River, the 1800’s apple that has never been duplicated; Smokehouse, the 1837 Amish heirloom; Northwest Greening; and Summer Rambo, a Garrett County favorite.
- Baking – All of them can be used for baking. Summer Rambo won the Merryweather Pie Champ award. Smokehouse, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent, Northwest Greening, and Northern Spy have also won many baking awards.
- Cider – Wolf River, Smokehouse, Northern Spy, Nova Spy, Summer Rambo, Smokehouse, Northwest Greening
- Beginning Grower -Wolf River, Nova Spy, Yellow Transparent,
- Storage – Northern Spy, Arkansas Black, Northwest Greening
- Wildlife Food Source – They all make a great source of food for wildlife as well as us humans, but Arkansas Black has earned a reputation for being a strong deer apple.
- Newer Cultivar – Jonamac, Nova Spy, Crimson Crisp, Wilton’s Red Jonaprice
Blueberry Package (4 bushes)
We have selected blueberry varieties that ripen one after another, so if you plant all four varieties, you’ll have blueberries for weeks each summer!
CHERRY – Montmorency – The #1 Commercial Cherry and Stardust, a naturally dwarfing Northern Sweet Cherry that flourishes in super-cold regions and Kristen, another super-cold hardy sweet cherry that can produce abundantly as low as zone 3! We are on back order for Kristen.
PLUM – Stanley, a plum heirloom; Bluebyrd, a truly Black Knot resistant variety that can be planted in clay soil, and Long John, a Black Knot resistant plum for sandy and sandy loam soils.
PEAR – Potomac, a Fire Blight resistant variety; Bartlett, the old standby heirloom, and Red Bartlett, a pear with higher levels of antioxidents.
NORTHERN PEACHES –
We had a lot of requests for peaches, but we didn’t want to offer them until we were sure we could make peaches available that would grow here in Garrett County. Now, here they are!
Veteran – A much-loved, and highly sought after naturally dwarfing Northern peach.
Contender – A cold-hardy, disease resistant peach that has seen success in Garrett County for several decades.
Reliance – the Northern peach against which all others are compared. So cold-hardy it produces in zone 3!
RASPBERRIES –
Black Raspberries – known to have antioxidants that fight cancer cells.
Red Raspberries – a healthy and tasty summer treat.
ELDERBERRIES – Bob Gordon which is, believe it or not, resistant to Japanese Beetles and Ranch, a super hardy cultivar.
Currently Featuring
This is only a sampling of the items that we have available. Click on the “See All Choices” or the “Shop Now” button below to view our catalog.
Our trees and bushes have been selected specifically for Garrett County’s harsh climate. And we have tried to give you a lot of information about each one so that you can find good fits.
But if you do need advice about tree or bush selection or about planting, feel free to contact us. We’ll be happy to help.
Where the Money Goes
Garrett Soil Conservation District uses funds from things like this tree sale to provide a valuable service to the community.
Here are just a few examples.
Cristy Enlow was the 2023 winner of the Garrett SCD Board of Supervisor’s Scholarship in the amount of $1000. She enrolled in Potomac State College last fall where she is studying Agribusiness Management and Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship. Learn more about Cristy and the scholarship.
$1000 Scholarship
Supporting local students working toward careers in agriculture and natural resources
The District helps protect the soil and water in Garrett County through its many programs. And did you know they also help protect endangered wildlife, like the little Golden-Winged Warbler? Although the MDA and the County help the District with administrative costs, only specific things are covered. The District also has to raise funding to pay for many of their expenses to continue services to the community.
Administrative Costs
To operate the Garrett SCD
Each year Garrett Soil Conservation District sponsors the Garrett County Envirothon to help students learn about conservation. GSCD also holds contests and provides other educational opportunities.
Envirothon and other Educational Opportunities
Helping students learn about conservation
PIck-up Day will be in April 2025
All orders must be picked up at our pick-up location on Pick-up Day. The location and date will be announced as it draws closer. The pick-up location will be in Garrett County, Maryland.
We are sorry, but we cannot ship any items.