Hi Minty, I purchased mine near my area (appx.) 1.5 hours away...it was a warehouse. I've attached a link below...there is a Contact # you can call...maybe they will be able to tell you if there is a place near you? The place is called " Standard Sand and Silica Company" Good Luck!! http://www.standardsand.com/contact-us/

Jason, I almost lost all of my crop due to web worm attacks. Yes, lychees are my favorite now--although I started liking bananas a lot (hence my name here) :) How old is your tree and what variety is it? Do you have any pictures to share? If it's a young tree, usually scanty fruit, but as they grow older, they may grow a little more fruit, so you can look forward to it giving you a lot more ... do keep us updated of its progress. But, for my case, I have no impressive results from growing Sweetheart (14 fruit for a 16 ft tree), Mauritius (12 fruit from a 16ft tree) and as for my 10 ft tall Hak Ip, none for several years in a row. But for my Brewster, I'm getting alternate year's harvest (IF they don't get devoured by web worms that is.. lol) Though I must say having tasted all of the the fruit now, I personally like Sweetheart the best--a lot more flesh and very succulent (with chicken tongue seeds). I actually have begun sprouting all the seeds I have this year. Puglvr, I'm glad you're still enjoying your frozen lychees. I will try to keep them as long as I can in the fridge, then I'll freeze some of the up if they begin to look tired. Thanks for the pruning reminder. I'll be clipping their branches off by mid July. I read somewhere that branches more than 1 inch thick should not be clipped off. Otherwise, it may affect their fruit production. Perhaps I was clipping off thicker branches of my Mauritius and Sweetheart in years past. I did remember clipping huge chunks out of them because my space here is quite tight. Here are some more pictures of my Brewster's harvest: #1 - Fruit that remained in the mid section of the tree. The others all dropped off. #2 - The fruits that were picked a week before June 19 had softer flesh that stuck to the seeds. These are about the right texture--spongy and not clinging to the seeds. The size aren't too big--smaller than the Sweetheart fruit. # 3 - My bunny checking out the harvest. He was more interested in munching the leaves ... lol. #4 - I collected them all in a 16-quart container and counted them. Altogether 350 or so .. a little more than the 100-200 fruit I had in 2013. 2014 had only 1 fruit :( ..., but thankful for this year's crop despite the web worms and for my hubby who sprayed BT regularly on it.

Parker,I have been thinking of the same thing too--about the cold, particularly about the damage that was caused to it in 2010. I think the fertility of the tree might have been greatly compromised because otherwise the foliage growth seems to be prolific. In fact, I have had to trim off the branches every year up to 3 ft from their tips. Trying to keep it from growing taller and broader was a chore .. lol. Right now, it stands at least at 16 ft if not 18 ft. This all happened after the tree died down to 1/3 of its original size. Before the freeze, it was about 6-7 ft tall. I think something weird must have happened that made this tree to behave in a way that is most unpredictable. My other lychee trees although are slow in catching up, they do eventually put up a show of a full crown blooms. This year, I'm so happy to see my Hap Ip and Sweet Heart in full blooms. I'm thankful that my Brewster regularly fruits, although it seems to be showing a year of heavy alternate with a year of light bloom. This year, it's going on a light bloom mode. Anyway, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all will go well as I also have to keep down the web worm infestation. So far, the BT we're spraying seems to be working. It's not a chemical, but a kind of a bacterium culture that the larvae from the web worm feed on. It makes them sick so they'll stop eating the young floral parts. They have been eating my Sweetheart every year until we found this wonderful spray. We're also spraying it on our mangoes as they also attack them. If you keep some lychees in your yard, it would be nice if you share pix of some of your plants.

Puglvr, Yes, I do hear what you're saying about getting older and having to keep up with a very active yard. While gardening is a healthy activity to do, it sure involves lots of muscle and skeletal work. I'm glad though that lychee trees don't shed too much and that makes things a little easier. I used to plant a lot of tall bananas that are a chore to clean when they die off. Since i still appreciate having them around, I only plant the dwarf varieties now. My Raja Puri banana is now fruiting at a stem height of 5 ft and the daughter is following suit at only 3 ft stem height (I was rather surprised). I've posted some pictures in the link here if interested: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4026633/banana-raja-puris-fruiting I certainly will also be planting another Sweetheart lychee soon--probably in the Fall as this is not a good time to plant it (with the intense heat and all). By the way, do you know if the Emperor lychee is a dwarf? Are there any other lychees species that belong to the dwarf genus? With regard to pruning, I was going to start tomorrow, but I realized that all my lychee trees are flushing like crazy. Do I go ahead to prune them anyway? Sorry, Daniel, for the side track in your post here. Do keep us updated on how your plant is doing and enjoy your Sweetheart :)