Hey J&J...how have you both been? Your citrus look great. Very healthy. What's happening with the Blood Orange? Does it tip over? It doesn't look bad, in fact it's 'kinda' cute, but if it's leaning, how about a stake? Insert closest to the main trunk, then attach with ti's. Let me know how the mango, avocado, sugar apple, lychee and guava do. Please. What type of guava did you get? Is sugar apple a type of apple? Is it hardy to your zone? Are you going to keep it in a pot or plant in the ground? I started a 'Cado from seed..it rooted, now living in a 4" pot, but roots are growing out of drainage holes, so a larger container is needed. All you need now is an Olive tree..lol. Toni I love your GH..what's its size? Sure looks like you have enough room..don't worry, you'll find space. There's always room for 1, 2, 3 more..LOL. Toni

Ken - We aren't slandering them... We're mearly letting other users know our experience so they can make an informed decision and if the stock is worth the price. I've ordered a good 150 plants in the last 2 years. I've ordered from new places and I've ordered from same places over and over again. Out of the 150 plants 10 where from them. They were so distorted looking and ugly that I had to get my money back. No responce through e-mail and when you call they want to give you credit on a future order. I planted 6 of the 10 plants if I can recall... Of the 6 planted only 1 didn't make it... 2 still look great... that leaves me with 3 others in the ground and 4 in 1 gallon containers. A total of 7... you still follow? I ripped the 3 out of the ground... then I took the 4 in 1 gallon containers and tossed them in the burning pile. Most didn't make it, not because of stress or planting, but because I couldn't stand looking at them each time I walked around lol. I understand that their will be some degree of failture when planting, but some plants aren't worth planting to begin with. If someone is going to ask about this company... I will tell them my experience... You don't send someone plants that look like this and offer them store credit on future orders... I know they trapped Whaas in the endless cylce until he finally had enough. I think he ordered from them 3-4 times and each time he called and they gave hime store credit for future use. Frankly, I haven't had a problem with ANY other company... all stock has been healthy. I've placed probably 15 orders through 4-5 different companies in the last two years. Some stock was expensive, some not so much, some cheap. They fall in the mid price range. I did have one bad plant of the 50 I bought over the past two years from SongSparrow. one plant I just had a concern with. I didn't want a replacement... I just called to let them know just incase it turned south after planting. They told me not to worry about it and to go ahead and plant it. In the meantime they will send a replacement just incase that it didnt. Now mary can make her own judgement on this company once she receives the plants. Who knows she may receive great looking plants. If she does I hope she will post a positive review... if she doesn't I hope that she will post a negative review. Whaas got from them looked pretty nice... it all just depeds on their stock at the moment. I'm more upset with customer service and how they handle replacements then the plants themselves.

Arctictropical, I was wondering if you had any info on what kinda soil a palm likes? I will be making a raised bed for my palms. One is a Needle palm that isn't too picky about soil. I had a Windmill palm, but, it died while still in a pot. I got it bareroot last month. I thought it should've never come bareroot in May, but, I put it in a pot in good potting soil. I don't know if I should've put it in shade right after transplant (likely) from being bareroot, or if I watered it too much, but, the pot has good draining potting soil, or why, but, it's all turning brown. I may get a Trachycarpus Princeps instead 1 gardenwebber says they are better in many ways, thicker bigger fronds, less damage to fronds in winds. I will need to protect it in my zone 6 anyway, so i may get a Pindo palm, Tr. Princeps. Anyway, whichever I pick, I wonder of you did anything to your soil, or if you use a palm fertilizer, or which palm is trouble free, slow growing, because I can only protect so long, not as long as you did with the Fortunei likely. I know that magnesium is important in the soil for many palms, and lime can be for some, dolomitic lime would be a good additive to soil making a raised bed? Dolomitic lime is supposed to have magnesium in it. But, your in Utah, and minerals in your soil may be a common thing, no need to add a thing. Basically, I have good soil, but, i have a raised bed form, and I have some clay soil, bagged cow manure, bagged topsoil with lottsa sand in it, and some heavily organic "raised bed soil" from Lowes. I can get some of my native topsoil to add too, but, not ,much I'll have to dig it up from someplace in my yard. I have some peat moss (which may not be the best additive) and I have some of the coconut coir stuff to mix in, the fine stuff, not the mulch kind in bigger pieces. I guess if I use the peat in small quantities I can add the dolomitic lime and it wont be too alkaline. Am I overthinking this? I already tried the soil and mulch forum, I'm still waiting on the experts there for help. You likely have all the minerals in your soil in Utah. I just don';t want to throw fertilizer on them and my soil isn't good enough.

It came up on the shady side under a tree fern. I have a dwarf blue spruce and a dwarf black Japanese pine Pinus thunbergii âÂÂthunderheadâÂÂ. An Asian pink Magnolia and a gingko tree, but that is all I have in the yard. And it was not near any of those trees, but I compost things from the yard back into the soil, so it could have traveled.