As you may know from my past posts, I will periodically travel to nurseries and review my purchases. I also order quite a bit online. My last purchases were from Bob Wells at Sorelle Farms in Texas, Logees, and Peaceful Heritage.
LogeesIf you are familiar with Logees, you know they sell what they say and their plants are generally healthy but they charge an arm and leg for shipping and they sell LITTLE plants. Logees strength is the variety of plants they sell. That said, they clearly state the size of the plants they sell. At one time Logees was the only place I knew of that had a variety mail order tropical fruit trees. Logee's does ship fast and Logees has a great website. Unless it's a plant that's available no where else I would say Logees should never be the first choice simply because their plants are so small.
Bob Wells at Sorelle Farms in TexasTo be honest I have never had a bad purchase from Bob Wells. Whether in store or not their product is always good. If they say they are shipping a 5 gal size tree, that's what you are getting. I like that what they ship is not bare rooted and the root systems are well developed. All trees Blenheim Apricot, Reliance Peach, and Sweet Treat Pluerry.They all calipered more than an inch all of them 4 footers. Bob Wells ships everything to most states except citrus. The website is great and easy to navigate.
Peaceful HeritagePeaceful Heritage is a newer vendor to me. You can tell they are small operation and not very well developed in terms of their web operation. According to their website they sell a wide variety of fruits and vegetables some of which you will not commonly on other websites. If you look at some of their YouTube videos you can see that they promote their operation in a way that makes you think that they are knowledgeable about what they sell. I actually found out about them searching for pawpaw videos. A poster on another website said they were a source for Horn's White Pawpaw and I decided to see what they had to offer. They sell the standard pawpaw cultivars you see on on there websites: the KSU's, the Petersens' and the old cultivars like Pennsylvania Golden. They also sell some of their own cultivars with names like Sri Vishnu and some of Lehman's cultivars.
My experience is that they are a little sketchy. This year I was late on my purchases and I decided to give them a try since they had some cultivars of pawpaw that I could not find anywhere else. I went to their website and they were sold out. They were selling a $50 VIP list that was supposed to allow you to buy trees when they were ready. Once it came out I ordered the trees that I wanted and was promptly informed that they only had what they called "supreme" sizes left. For $150 a tree I was expecting something special. This is what I got after a grand total of $400( two trees $40 for shipping. No the VIP did not apply to the purchase).
The Package with two trees.
This is high graft done with what looks like graft wax.
Both trees out of the box
Youcan see the length of the tree.
You can see this is quite a small diameter.
These are not $150 trees. No way in the world the word supreme applies to these trees. It's like he's grafting high to make it look like it's an older tree. A one year old graft on a 3 year old seedling is not a 4 yr old tree. I would not recommend Peaceful Heritage for pawpaw purchases. Their confusing sizing and their VIP sale tactic put them in the same category for me as some of the other internet operations that have not the best reputation. I am going to have to mark them off my list like I did Seamus O'Leary.
Topic: Not so Supreme. My review of Peaceful Heritage Pawpaw purchases. (Read 1015 times)