We do not offer a printed catalog. The most current listing for our products, sizes, and prices are here on our website. Check to see if it is pruned. First and most importantly, annual pruning is highly recommended by research experts because it helps the plant grow better once planted and promotes better branching structure that leads to better fruit production.
Secondly, the maximum box height allowed by FedEx Home delivery is inches 8. So for example, orders of a single foot tree, some pruning allows us to meet this height restriction and in turn allows you to receive your order at a reasonable shipping cost.
However, there is the option to receive our larger trees via FedEx Freight delivery, without any pruning but at an additional cost. Call us for freight options or quotes. However, we are first and foremost a mail-order plant company. We are not generally open to the public. You can call us and schedule an appointment or pickup so that we can have someone on site to best serve you. It stands for Balled and Burlapped, which is similar to a potted tree.
The tree is grown in the field along with our bare-root trees. However, this tree is dug in a way that the soil around the root is spaded out of the ground and placed in a wire basket that has been lined with burlap. Then it's tied tightly with twine to secure the root-ball that has been formed.
The roots are much less disturbed with this transplanting process. We do! If you would like to purchase a gift certificate, please give us a call at At Willis Orchard Company, we offer free professional pruning for our trees. Pruning is an important step in ensuring that your tree is healthy, will grow properly and will produce the maximum amount of fruit.
Pruning removes weaker branches and encourages growth for the stronger branches. Once our experts have selected the highest quality trees from our nursery, they will prune your trees before packaging them and sending them to your door.
We recommend continuing to prune your tree throughout its life to promote the growth and health of your tree. If you don't want this service, please let us know in the notes section of the checkout form. If the tree is still green underneath, your tree is still alive and may need more time to produce or put-on leaves. If it is brown, that means your tree could be dead. If this is the case, email orders willisorchards.
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For our order form click here. Of course! To pre-order, you need to place your order as you normally would, and the preordered items will ship at their designated ship date as noted on your order. To have an order delayed, you will need to contact us to let us know when you want it shipped. You will need to contact us through email or phone as soon as possible, because we try to ship out most of our products the same day, if at all possible. But please read on: This fall I contacted Willis and told them about my dead trees and asked what all I had to do in order to redeem the 1-year guarantee.
This is where I feel Willis earned a very positive review in spite of the death of so many trees. We will never know for certain why the trees died, so to me it is more about how they handled the deaths-and they did great in this regard.
I spoke to a lady named Cynthia. She almost immediately waived their stated requirement that the dead trees be mailed back or at least photographed and submitted. She said that if I told her the trees were dead she would trust me and not make me go through proving my word. That impressed me. She then presented some options on how to handle the redemption of my warranty. I had a new order of 8 new trees that I was going to buy, so she simply took the exact price I had paid for the trees that I said had died, and subtracted that value from my new order total.
When we were talking about who would pay shipping on sending the replacement trees, she actually said that would be up to me! Its true While you may disagree, I felt that since they had trusted me on the dead trees, and since we didn't know for sure if the deaths were due to me, fed ex, or them, and since I was about to order new trees and pay shipping anyway, I said I would pay shipping on the new order which included some replacements from my warranty.
Keep in mind their stated warranty policy says the buyer has to pay shipping, so her offer was once again above and beyond their stated policy. She even replaced one tree I said I was worried about but was not going to submit until spring to be sure it was dead. I didn't claim in and didn't know until my order arrived that she gave me the benefit of the doubt and went ahead and replaced it too! Without a single exception, each and every one of the 8 trees I ordered came in feet longer than the foot trees I ordered.
They were also thicker and with better roots than I've seen in past orders from other vendors. Roots were completely surrounded by that jelly-type substance, then all were completely wrapped in plastic and taped up so jelly-type stuff remained wet and in place around the roots. Then the full bundle was carefully bubble wrapped and fit snuggly into a long box clearly labeled which end was up. If some people have had a different experience-and I've read some that have- I respect that and certainly believe you.
This is just my personal experience and it was so overwhelmingly positive that I felt compelled to tell others. Hope you get something from it. Well, my first fruit tree order was to Willis. Supposed to ship in January per email and our agreement. A week after the order in early Nov. Dried out warehouse leftovers from the prior year.
Didn't know any better at the time. The only things from them still alive from 3 summers ago are 3 loquats that turned out to be seedlings despite assurances they were grafted, and 1 Comice pear on unknown rootstock another problem with Willis. They effectively act as a middleman from nurseries around the country. Most things never broke dormancy.
Did have success with four cherry trees from them that died from Cotton Root Rot which is not their fault. But the list of what is was extensive. Fair enough, and it is only right that people should hear both reviews so I completely respect your decision to put it out here.
I readily admit that yours is not the only bad review I've read on them. Not sure if I just happened to get a great employee, whether the company is genuinely evolving and working successfully to improve customer service in recent times, or whether my experience was a fluke. I just know that my request to redeem my warranty on several trees could not have been handled any better and my replacement trees would make anyone proud. But I think its helpful for people to hear the good and the bad before deciding on which company to order from, so thanks for your experience.
Hopefully others will share too. What's in your fall garden? My guestroom remodel. Boring hodgepodge to quirky farmhouse. Retirement in this Kitchen - Your Opinion, Suggestions? By all means possible to get fall shipment, just my opinion. I just do not trust any sellers who sell the left-over stocks stored in warehouse from November to March.
Get the fresh fall stock if possible. As for vendor reputation, you do not need many to ruin the reputation. A lot of people just do not want to complain or report. I ordered a bearing size green gage plum three years ago from Willis. It is around a three inch caliper now and seems to be doing well. It is my largest tree and has suffered less from black knot than other E plums I've planted nearby.
I had another green gage next to it from a small, very reputable nursery that died after this winter, but that was probably my fault for planting it in a wet location. It seems to have lots of fruit buds for the first time this year so I'm hoping for some fruit this Spring, and hoping that it is true to type. Ztom- Green Gage is one of the trees I ordered from them! Based on what I've read here on GW, Green Gage no longer means much more than "some kind of greenish plum" to most nurseries these days.
I hope that isn't true but those I respect here say it probably is and we don't have the old-style green gage that I read so many good things about it made me want one. However, since you got yours from the same place I did, I'd love to hear your opinion on the matter- any idea if its the real deal? Also, I hear most Euro's take longer to fruit. I don't suppose yours has produced yet has it?
I have the link below. This year the leaves looked larger, darker and greener now. Hopefully this will be the year I find out. Here is a link that might be useful: Willis - green gage -garden web. Although I have had good service from Willis on three orders, my best experience is with Hirts Garden.
I ordered a Arkansas Frime Freedom blackberry and recieved a Ark. Prime 45 instead. It was a beautiful plant, properly packaged and they refunded my money and allowed me to keep the I still want a Freedom, but I have to create room.
Big nurseries can be decent. I ordered one plant from Willis, and it was great. But that is little experience. Often they have so many plants, and if stock is good, you get a nice one. The best biggest blueberry I ever got was from Stark Bros.
But recently they will only send plants in your zone. And restrict some for unknown reasons? I asked them about Chandler blueberry why they could not send it, they blamed the state of Michigan, but I checked and it is allowed. MI restricts new cultivars for some time till they check out. Usually though most are eventually allowed. Also this was not a recent change, last year they allowed Chandler in MI. That is the plant I got from them that was gorgeous. Glad they gave you a no hassle replacement, but 7 out of 9 of the original plants died?
I'd take the replacements, then vow to never order from them again. Out of all the bareroot plants I've planted, I've had exactly one that never leafed out. That was a Fuyu that died from winter injury. That's no expertise on my part - I think that's due to receiving good stock, a lot of which is shipped across the country.
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