Fedco Trees 2026
Welcome to Fedco Trees’s 42nd annual tree order
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
– John Lennon
We imagine the flower before we ever see the buds. We imagine the fruit before the tree bears. It’s an order of things that most gardeners understand intimately: to hold a seed or a fragile rooted cutting and know what it could become, and to love it into that becoming.
At the end of our last spring shipping season, we were tired to the bone and it seemed impossible to imagine the next season, even though it was time to start the cycle over again. I walked out into the sunlight after we bundled the last plants and most of the crew had gone home, and I saw a tree swallow quietly lift herself from the ground with a stray shred of paper from our box-packing materials. I smiled and thought, Ah, someone has found purpose in the mess. There is a season for everything, and the great wheel spins on. We have good work to do. I was grateful to the swallow for the reminder.
We’ve dedicated this catalog’s theme to birds. They are all our proverbial canaries in the mine, our fellow travelers on this ride, and they need our support. Our winged friends would be content to eat or shelter in so many of the plants we offer in this catalog. If they don’t eat them directly, they eat the bugs and caterpillars that do. We’ve highlighted some of the plants that are most beneficial to birds and hope you and your imagination will join us in our endeavor to fill the world with more plants, not just for ourselves, but for the other creatures as well.
Wishing you a fruitful 2026 season.
– Jen Ries and the Fedco team