Yes, sad news about Garden's Alive. They operate on both sides of the border. Overall though the nurseries are rather mediocre. The demand for the plants is high, and the specimen's are not that impressive. I paid a little extra for a larger tree. But is is only 8 inches, and yes it is from HBUSA. No doubt it will be 6 or 7 years before this twig sees full production. All the photos posted here too are much bigger than mine, but still all are rather small trees. No farmer can afford to wait for these, and probably cannot order enough for commercial use. Distribution is terrible! Compared to the sweet cherry I got an almost 5 ft tall tree and on Gisela will be producing next year. In it's 3rd year I'll probably get hundreds of cherries. Don666 has a decent tree, and it did produce early, but they are not selling anything near that size. And if I wanted 100 of them, I bet I could not get them. The distribution sucks! Garden's Alive so far has not even offered cupid and the other romance series trees. I'm not sure what they are waiting for? On suckers ,early reports are they really do not sucker that much. Anybody here have any suckers? Yeah I had some bare root raspberries come in at the same time, and they look giant compared to the Carmine Jewel. So olpea, you could keep it in a 1/2 gallon pot all summer and plant in the fall, if you're area is not ready yet. I would, don't expect to be harvesting huge crops anytime soon! Well i hope MSU is doing something radical with the trees, as so far for commercial use, these trees are not impressive. I'm very curious about the MSU cultivars too, their MSU Kiwi, and The Liberty blueberry are rather impressive offerings from MSU. My thought is MSU is going to go for the traditional tart cherries for processing. These trees are just too small, and they need a tree that can produce hundreds of cherries in 3 years, if not it is out. They do need a small tree, but it must produce early, and not just a few cherries, but hundreds of cherries. But if one can invest the time, these trees are very cool. The 6 foot specimens I have seen do produce hundreds of cherries. It is why i was confused about them being mentioned in the articles, because these trees do not produce early, it does take 5 or 6 years to reach full production. Why would they be included in studies to produce in 3 years if they were doing nothing different? As we already know how long it takes to grow them. I guess they may have been mentioned because they are the right size for the harvester machine, OK, that makes sense. This post was edited by Drew51 on Mon, Apr 22, 13 at 8:39

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I got a box from Linda today! Yay! Although...I wonder why the words "fragile" & "live plants" always seem to incite a postal-sorting-room game of box football? This thing looks like it's been through several games & a tie-breaker inning! LOL! The only casualty is the Russian stonecrop Sedum. Poor guy looks like the specialty shakes that the local health food store whips up. *humming death march* I'll give it a decent burial, though...no worries. :o) Here's everything else: ~Magnetic note pad ~bunny socks! always LOVE printed socks!! ~scented jar candle ~gnome pot hugger ~cute button brooch/pin handmade by Linda! ~cats & kittens (hens & chicks)- from Linda's grandmothers house- she always called them cats & kittens! ~liatris (which Linda says reminds her of a toilet brush...now THERE'S an image! LOL!! ~pineapple sage (which she got from Dan...COOL!) ~torch lily (my first) ~california poppy (I've never been to CA, so this is as close as I'm likely to ever get!) ~snow on the mountain (I have fire on the mountain growing wild, so this will look neat next to it!) ~peony - always love these! ~lambs ear (Aubeni loves these plants!) ~rose of sharon (a favorite of her grandfather AND his middle name was Sharon...NEAT!) Thank you, Miss Linda, for a great box! I love everything. They're all soaking right now, and I"ll plant them tonight. I'll even plant the stonecrop....maybe it'll bounce back... I'm optimistic. :D (hugs)