My own experience with sweet cherries and Apricots.... I absolutely LOVE apricots - but so does all of the disease and bugs here... The tree seems incredibly difficult to keep alive down here.... I have 1 apricot that went in last year.... and I am seriously re-considering a Tomcot.... but I lost all 5 other apricots to bugs literally eating the trees to the ground... Cherries... Cherries are tough because Birds love them so much... so far - the last 3 years... I have gotten 1 cherry each year in my mouth... The foliage also gets hammered by Japanese Beetles... but they seem to pull through... On Peaches - Scott has great advice.. I would also add Red Haven and Elberta.... They are older, tough, reliable cultivars... Plums wise... Same as Scott - but more so... My European plums don't do well in the summer... Too hot for them - and they go dormant in the summer - and the plums came out very bitter... I dug them up and planted them in the shade last year.. and they didn't die.. We will see this year... Japanese plums wise - so far Methley is super reliable but So-so for taste (Bland and watery when fully ripe) until the very end of it's season.. The kids absolutely love them - so the tree can stay for now... I put in a Satsuma last year - we will see how it does.... If you like making Jelly - American plums are the ticket... but they are very bitter/sour/inedible until 100% fully ripe... I LOVE home made American plum jelly! Thanks

I bought a dwarf cherry this year from Silver Creek Nursery. They're showing some plums, apricots, etc that are good to Zone 4, and will ship bareroot.

I got mine from Lawyer nursery - very good quality. They do have a high minimum order but if you are getting other trees or going in with anyone else I would highly recommend them. They also have the best seed department I've ever seen - they've got everything.

Ahh, a neighbor! Most of what has been mentioned does not like it here. Austins will get blackspot. Buck roses either get blackspot or can't handle the winters. Now some roses that do do reasonably well here are Westerland and its sports, Autumn Sunset and Lemon Meringue, and an old HT called Lafter. Westerland gets enough winterkill that it can easily be kept down to that size, though it would bloom better if it didn't die back. Another question is where are you going to get these. The usual source here is Pickering, but it's late to be ordering bareroot roses. The local places have really been cutting down on the roses they carry lately.