Check Van Well, they maintain a pretty current inventory list on-line. Not many heirlooms though.

The best deal I have found in apples is White Oak Nursery. It is a small Amish nursery with high quality trees and a good mix of heirloom and modern varieties. $15 for a top quality tree. You need to write for a catalog, and mail in the order via their form with a check. 2507 White Oak Rd. Strasburg, PA 17579-9733. If you are ordering lots of trees the wholesale places like Van Well might be able to give you a better overall price.

Scot

What was their shipping charges Scott?

Appleseed, they have more or less standard shipping charges. $150 of trees is $33 shipping for me for example. It depends on your location, its more if you are further away.

Scott

I requested a catalog from Schlabach on Mamuang's advice but so far haven't received it. They had a phone number you could call and leave a message to request it. They are Amish also, but I guess had a phone located outside their property. Many Amish near here will have phones mounted on the telephone pole outside their property. One guy had his inside an old Cadillac (not running) at the edge of his property.
Does White Oak have such a phone number?

White Oak is 186 miles from me.

Scott, do you know what types of rootstock choices they have and do they carry crabapples? I'm looking for a Chestnut Crab, Kerr and Centennial on something dwarfing, although the Centennial could be semi since it is a smaller tree.

Thanks.

Yes they have a phone along with hours to call. Send me an email (its on my GW email page) and I'll send it to you.

Scott

Zendog, they don't have many crabs, none of those in fact. They use various rootstocks including MM111, M7, etc.

Scott

Appleseed, I got your email but it didn't show the return address so I can't send back to you. Just send me another email where you type your email in and I will have your email to reply.. you have your GW preferences set to not reveal your email.

Scott

Well hmm I just read the phone hours and he says he mans the phone only starting March 1st, for later orders. So you may not even be able to reach him by phone before then.

This post was edited by scottfsmith on Tue, Jan 6, 15 at 19:21

Thank you for the advice! Hopefully I can get a letter off to the Amish place this week. I will check Van Well too. I'm definitely not ordering wholesale on them this year, just trying to get 15-30 trees to start my personal orchard.

If you want nice trees and aren't trying to find the cheapest possible, Adams County Nursery and Cummins are both good places to go. ACN has a lot of the more popular recent varieties and Cummins has more heirloom and disease resistant cultivars with extensive rootstock options. It is a bit late, so they are both out of some varieties, but between them they should have pretty good selection.

Scott...you didn't get my email because I didn't send one. Why can't you just post their phone number here on the forum?

Bob...Adams County Nursery is a well regarded nursery and well known to me, but they only offered William's Pride apple for 1 year and currently (both this year and last and I think the year before also) chose not to offer it. They are certainly more geared to professional orchardists and I don't blame them one bit if that is their profit machine. I'll order from them if it makes fiscal sense to me but if not...I look elsewhere. They are a helpful bunch and their prices are reasonable and shipping is not too crazy either. Of the big ones...they are probably the best there is.
I gotta look and see if William's Pride is one of the scions I asked for from ARS...if it is, maybe I'll order Zestar from Adams County instead (that is if it's still available).
That's something that irks me about ACN...they sell out of everything good so fast...I'm never that forward-thinking. I guess that's a testament to their good business practices, but damn you'd think they would adjust so as to not leave so much meat on the bone.

Appleseed, I guess someone else had emailed me. There was no name on the note and I assumed it was you.

I didn't want to post the number since posted numbers get spam calls and if I had my phone in an old Cadillac by the road I would really not like that. But I just checked and it seems its already out there... 717 687 8884. In the catalog he states he will generally be by the phone 6-8PM from March 1 to May 15th or so.

I agree if you are not after the best tree for the $$ there are many other great apple nurseries. Along with Cummins, ACN, etc, a new one I really like is Century Farm Orchards.

Scott

13 of my 14 apple trees came from Burnt Ridge Nursery. They have a good selection and probably have the best prices when compared to other online nurseries. However, in order to avoid the tiny potted trees that they sometimes send, you must ask for bare root only. The five trees they sent last year were the best I've ever received.

I have a small order pending with Cummins. A White Gold cherry and Grimes Golden apple tree. This is the first year I've ordered from them. The whole process has been a bit cumbersome as they don't have online ordering. Also, their prices seem reasonable at first, but once you add up all the fees, it really adds up - "premium" fees, broken bundle charges, royalties, ect. Hoping the trees are as good as everyone says.

I ordered a couple apple trees from Schlabach along with peach, apricot, blueberry, etc and very happy with the quality of the products (good root systems) and the price. I also ordered Cummins but I think they're more expensive and there's one of the trees I got that definitely way too small for the grade that I chose. I didn't complain and planted anyway and somehow that one tree refused to grow any bigger, after almost 2 years.

Thanks for the number Scott. I didn't think about the spam thing.
I had tried searching it and couldn't find it.

White Oak is awesome. The trees are top notch.

Has anyone ordered from Grandpa's Orchard? Would love some feedback on them since they are relatively close to me.

I have not ordered from them but they do have a good rep. and good reviews the last I checked at Garden watchdog.

I ordered some nectarine trees from Grampas last year. They exceeded my expectations on all counts except price. Their customer service was excellent, they let me change my order several times; shipping was exactly when promised; trees were excellent quality freshly dug and really took off. Now all they have to do is lower their prices a bit :-)

Scott

I got a couple apple trees from them in Fall 2012 and they were excellent. Nice roots and decently branched (5-6 branches each).

They also handled things well from a customer service standpoint- there was a delay in the tree-guards I ordered with the trees, and they sent them a week or so later with extra included as an unnecessary apology. They also answered an email question promptly.

That is good to hear, they are only a hour and a hlf drive from me so I think I will plan a road trip to pick out my trees.

They seem to have a lot of dwarf and semi dwarf rootstocks to choose from. does anyone have an opinion on which would be best for doing espalier in mich.