Butternut (juglans cinera):  The white walnut. Fast growing tree with tasty, buttery, thick shelled nuts. Pure butternut trees are susceptible to an introduced fungal disease known as butternut canker. Our trees are grown from seed from healthy parent trees that are likely to be wild hybrids between butternut and Japanese walnut. Extremely disease resistant and cold hardy walnut to zone 3/4

Carpathian Walnut (juglans regia): This is the walnut that resembles those we see in the store. Thin shelled and easy to crack nuts. Trees are hardy to zone 5 and best planted in sites with good air drainage as they have a tendency to flower early in the spring. Our seed nuts are gathered in the Finger Lakes region of NY where temperatures can plunge down to -20F.

Black Walnut (juglans nigra): Very tough trees, grown for nuts or timber. Black walnuts have an unrivaled flavor that is loved by some and disliked by others. They are considered excellent by almost everyone when tasted in baked goods. Our seed source is only trees grown in upstate NY with apparent resistance to nectria canker.

Heartnut (juglans sieboldiana var. cordiformis): Pictured on this page, heartnuts are a phenomenal walnut actually shaped like a heart with a good butternut flavor. Easy to crack out into halves or whole pieces. Very fast growing

Japanese Walnut (juglans sieboldiana): The species from which heartnuts come from. Japanese walnuts make a very good walnut that tastes just like heartnuts and butternuts. The shells are thick, but split apart easily with a good nut cracker. The meats usually come out in large whole pieces. I am not sure why more people are not growing Japanese Walnuts, they are certainly worthy of our attention and cultivation. Nuts can be a myriad of shapes and sizes. Hardy to zone 5