Purchasing Our Trees
Retail buyers: We produce trees from 36 inches tall and up for retail sale. We are California certified and have shipped successfully as far as California and Texas from south Florida.
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While our production facilities are not open to the public, we welcome retail customers and will arrange for shipment, delivery, or pickup by appointment after verifying that we have the quantity needed for the order.
How to Order Trees for yourself
The first step for retail customers is to submit an email to us including your name, organization name (if applicable), complete address, phone (very important!), and email address, as well as the quantity you wish to order. We will then send you a return email detailing our current availability, as well as packing and shipping costs, if applicable. If you want to be sure to receive our email reply, you need to designate our email address as a "friend" or "contact" in your spam filtering program so that our reply does not end up blacklisted or discarded before you see it!
IMPORTANT NOTE: We have had instances where people emailed us, we replied right away, and we never received a reply back. Later, we discovered that our email reply ended up in their spam folder and/or was deleted as spam. To be sure to get our reply email, make certain that our email address is designated as a "friend" or "contact" in your spam filtering list!
We stock trees in Superoots Air-Pots, and the trees range from 36" to over 5 feet tall, depending upon the time of year and the demand on our production. The trees 3 feet to 4 feet tall (our standard shipping size) retail at $54 each plus a packing and shipping charge which will vary according to the location being shipped to. Generally, the packing and shipping charges range from $35 to $45 per tree, based on current UPS Ground shipping or USPS Priority Mail rates plus the packing required to insure safe arrival to your door. If you wish your tree(s) shipped by another carrier, such as FedEx, or another rate, such as next day air, you must arrange with us via email before making the purchase.
We can also deliver locally in the south Florida area for a small charge and we do sell our trees at selected plant sales and shows in south Florida throughout the year, stock permitting. Payment for these trees is made via PayPal; once payment is received, we will schedule shipment of your tree(s).
If you have already bought a Rainbow, or if you just want to know how to care for one, download a PDF copy of the Rainbow Care Sheet here.
Special Note about our Air-Pot grown trees
Just prior to shipping, we remove and retain the Air-Pot for reuse and either bag the rootball securely in a heavy plastic bag or place it in a standard nursery pot. In either case we recommend strongly that you be prepared to install the tree in the ground as soon as possible after you receive it. We do not recommend planting the tree in a standard nursery pot unless it must be kept for a week or so before planting. If the tree needs to be kept longer, please consider purchasing an appropriately size Air-Pot for this use so as to retain the benefits the tree received from being grown in an Air-Pot.
Why do we price by tree size rather than by pot size? Well, unlike trees grown in standard nursery pots, the quality and value of an Air-Pot grown tree cannot be determined from pot size alone. For example, if you were looking at a 5 foot tree in a 3 gallon standard nursery pot, in all likelihood that tree would be overgrown and would have significant root circling. That tree would be of less value than one 3 feet tall in a 3 gallon standard nursery pot. By contrast, a 5 foot tree in a 3 gallon Air-Pot is a stronger tree with a denser radial root system and thus is of greater value than a 3 foot tree in a 3 gallon Air-Pot.
We do everything we can to insure the safe arrival of your tree(s) to your destination. However, since what happens in transit is entirely beyond our control, the buyer must assume all responsibility for viability of product once the carrier accepts the shipment.
When to Order Trees
We welcome your retail email inquiries at any time and will respond with our current availability. In the event that we are completely out of stock, we will announce that here and also will post the projected date when we expect to have more stock.
Wholesale buyers: At present, we do not stock sufficient quantities of trees to offer wholesale pricing. However, we will consider contract growing trees for your next landscaping project or community.
If you have any other questions about our trees that are not answered here, please email us with your query.
Also remember that we are not set up to sell to the walk-in trade, so you must place your orders and do your communication through email.
What to do to keep your trees thriving
Your satisfaction is our primary concern, so to help you succeed with your plants, please review the information provided on this site to guide you in cultivating them. If your question is still not answered, feel free to email us and we will do our best to help. These trees are generally free of pests; the most common problems are too little water and too much fertilizer (i.e. a granular feed). Keeping your tree soil moist at all times is extremely important for Rainbows. When repotting, be sure to support the root ball with open hand around the stem area and tapping around the rim of the pot rather than pulling on the stem to get the tree out of the pot. Pulling on the stem to remove the tree from the pot can result in serious root injury.
Since the conditions under which you are growing are beyond our control, we can only guarantee that the plants are in quality shape at the time the shipment is accepted by the carrier (or, in cases where we are delivering in person, when you physically take delivery).
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