my experience: trees and berry plants

I have bought trees and bush/vine from the following:  starkbros; adam and true vine ranch (this farm sold to a couple two years ago renamed to waters blueberry). Generally, I am very satisfied with the quality, customer service, and their reputation (sold as their described on their website and guarantee):

http://acnursery.com/acn_trees.php

I bought plum and cherry trees. Callipered 5/8’’ and 3/8’’ (larger ones sold out), and received as is. One cherry 3/8’’ died after I came back from 6 week vacation without watering them. They agreed to ship another one this year as they have 1 year guarantee policy. The plum and other cherry trees are very vigorious over last year and getting bigger now.   

http://www.starkbros.com/

I bought bushes: blackberry, grape, raspberry, asparagus, etc, and one persimmon tree “select”. The tree was small and slim (, 4.5 feet, 3/8’’ or so), at first it was strong and even flowered but same thing happened after I came back from vacation. I phoned them--without any problem they shipped me another one last fall.

The bushes arrived in small and bare root. I was disappointed at first. Over the summer I found they grew much stronger/taller than those I bought at Homedepot and Lowes. In fall my kids picked a lot juicy raspberries.   This year I ordered over 30 raspberry bushes about 12 varieties as I can see my kids enjoyed at lot picking their own fresh berry at backyard.

http://www.water*****lueberryfarm.com/   same as  http://www.truevineranch.com/ 

They only sell blueberry plants. As they claimed, according to their size, the prices are different. I bought all the largest ones except one smaller as the largest bushes were sold out.  They arrived very big, one even over 5-6 feet. Last summer I have already picked blueberries, not many, but taste good.

Last year I bought “large” (two or more feet) blueberry, blackberry, raspberry plants from Homedepot and Lowes. They have already had flowers and berries on. Unfortunately after I planted most of them were dead by fall. Some did not die, but did not grow either over last year.