After another email inquiry yesterday morning, my order shipped yesterday.
Couple trees, and some more roots for grafting.
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Just figured Iād give my 2 cents. I ordered 2 peaches and 4 apricots. Peaches were nice size, some of the apricot trees (including the roots) were huge. Nicely packaged, quickly shipped, good prices. Will see how they do once they leaf out but I donāt expect any problems.
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Iām happy ā¦ got an apple potted, and half the rootstocks grafted. Balance planted in next 2 days hopefully.
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I bought a plum from them last year and it was a high quality tree and it did great the first year. I think they are about the best deal out there now in terms of price for the quality you get.
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Last year order.
Suncrisp apple
Kosui Asian pear
2023 order: Querina Florina apple on Bud 9, Sun Fuji on M7, Ilona on Myro
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Anyone still having issues contacting Mehrabyan? Iām guessing heās just swamped with work - but havenāt heard anything back about a tree order. Been trying to get in touch for a couple weeks.
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Mine turned out OKā¦but if not for a couple emails Iām not sure if Iād have gotten the promptness that I did.
My last apples are in bloomā¦some early but not as much so as earlier in the year.
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My 2023 order - my first order from Mehrabyan. From left to right (iirc):
- Empress plum on Myrobalan
- Rich May peach on Lovell
- Dolgo crab on G41
- Harrow Sweet on OHxF87
- Williams Pride apple on M7
- Black Pearl cherry on Krymsk6
- Desiree peach on Lovell
Dolgo and Black pearl were already pushing strong pale buds. Roots were a bit drier than Iād have liked. The root balls were all wrapped in a plastic bag, with a little (possibly incidental) dirt. Empress plum roots were enormous. Harrow Sweet, would have liked to have been better root mass, but it was way better than what Adams County sent me last year - which was just basically a 3" root knub, that died. So I still have higher hopes for this one. Overall seems pretty good.
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Anyone want to chime in on last yearās order survival/establishment rate?
Those pics above and good pricing is what made me jump on the train instead of the other established nurseries. This seasonās 1st shipment is only a few weeks away and I have 3 trees in the pipeline. Will post pics and review when they arrived.
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Not sure about this place. Ordered a couple of peaches in Jan 2024. Supposed to ship April 8. Got an email they were delayed. Have sent them 2 emails requesting new shipment date, no response. Might cancel order. Poor customer service.
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I think it must be a smaller operation with limited staff. Iāve ordered a couple of trees from them the last 2 years and they definitely ship later than I would like, but that could just be the conditions at their orchard. The trees themselves were very nice quality and they have a good selection.
They shipped about the same time as Grandpaās Orchard which is also a little later than I would prefer for my area. But overall not a huge deal I guess. The trees all did well.
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I ordered 10 m111 rootstocks from them back in February and asked for a ship date of 4/15.
They shipped the rootstocks on 4/15 and they arrived yesterday. Very nice looking with 1/4-3/8" caliper and a good amount of actual roots.
I would definitely order from them again
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My friend ordered 20 trees from them, and i ordered 2. All look good. Claribel Quince was especially nice size.
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I ordered mine to ship the first available week (March 4), but was delayed a week. They did send a mass email about the delay. They are a family operations of 3 people (dad, mom, daughter) so I understood that delays would be inevitable during peak bareroot season. Their prices are very good and quality of roots is on par with the previous reviews in this thread. Would recommend and order from them again.
Donut peach, White Lady peach, Korean Giant pear
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Well here it is May 1st and still no trees. Temps are nearing 80F in Northern Arizona. These people never responded to my inquiries on shipping. Was supposed to ship on April 8, via UPS. Finally shipped on April 22. Then got messages about 2 more delays. Then on top of it, I find out that UPS is not delivering it, but transferring it to USPS. Another day or more. I hope the trees are still alive. 40 bucks for delivery, takes forever to ship, no response from sellers and now have to go to the PO.
I would certainly think long and hard before ordering from them again.
Update
Picked up the trees today. PO said delivered, but of course I had to stop by there two more times before they could locate them. Opened them up, and as I figured, the extra travel time in high temps caused them to start leafing out. The shavings were almost totally dry. Got them in the ground asap. Watered good. We will see.
My criticism of this nursery comes from my own experience as a retired nursery owner and landscape designer. Also 40 plus year as a master gardener. I have purchased lots and lots of plants, both as a nurseryman and consumer. Communication and customer service are the key to any successful business. If you get slammed, you hire extra people to get the product out. You donāt make excuses and you donāt take shortcuts. Had my trees been shipped when promised, I am certain they would have arrived in excellent condition. As is with them leafing out, the higher temps and near dry roots, all caused by delayed shipping, they may not make it.
I will say that the caliper and root mass of these trees is excellent.
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I imagine that they are slammed because of their favorable prices.
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I got my OHxF87 rootstocks in from them last week and they look great. Iād definitely order from them again.
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I have ordered from Mehrabyan Nursery in the past and have had great success with their nursery stock. If there is an issue with shipping sounds like they sent an email to people that have ordered.
That should be good enough for an explanation since they are a small family owned and ran business.
I much rather prefer ordering from small mom and pop type operations and run into an occasional snag here and there than dealing with a big nursery with constant excuses of this and that. I am still battling with one of the bigger nurseries on an issue from a few years back. I have given up with them. They have become too big to be efficient with customer service. So lesson learned.
As far as them shipping UPS and then USPS has taken over delivery, this happens more and more. So donāt get to worked up about that. I have paid more for delivery here recently.
Take a breath and just enjoy the trees when you get them planted. Things never seem to run smooth here in the last few years.
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Well, the one tree finished leafing out immediately. Although not as vigorously as I had hoped.
The other didnāt even start to until this past week. That is with 88 plus degree temps. Will see how they look at the end of summer.
When nurseries sell across the country, they really should look at what temps the area they are shipping to is experiencing and take into consideration transit times. Also if they need help to get their product out, they need to hire help. Better to lose a bit of profit, then a prospective long time customer. I am glad others have had better service.
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My experience:
I placed my order in the late fall of last year (2024) and found the combinations of prices, shipping costs and selection of trees and rootstocks I was looking for was better than other options i could find. A month after my initial order I decided to get an additional tree but wanted to find out if i could add it to the order I had already made to minimize how much additional shipping costs would be applied. I tried emailing them and after a few weeks of not hearing back tried calling. Surik answered promptly and was very helpful. He explained that they could definitely do that and since he was in the field at that moment, to just reply to the invoice i got initially with the information about the changes i wanted to make to the order. I did as instructed and again no answer for a while. I realized the email i had used to place the order is a domain thatās not a common (...@zoho.com) one and I have occasionally had issues with some places spam filters blocking the domain so i tried an old hotmail account i use at times to send another email referencing my order and the next day they had sent an updated invoice.
Then in the spring the week before my requested shipping date i got an update emailed to me saying due to weather they were a little behind schedule and working to ship orders asap. Since my work had a few weeks before sheduled me to be out of town the week after my requested ship date, i emailed (from the hotmail account) to give them this information and ask if they could ensure my order didnāt ship until after that work trip if they couldnāt be sure it would arrive before i left. They responded promptly saying they would work to avoid the week i would be gone.
Overall, the delays in communication Iām inclined to chalk up to a mismatch of my chosen email provider and whichever email service/spam filter they must use since in every other instance i attempted to contact them whether through email or phone i got prompt and helpful responses.
The order arrived as expected in the (updated shipping week), and the trees were well packaged in the box so they were not able to bang around in the box. the roots were packed inside moist wood chips inside plastic bags. The trees looked good and were all dormant except the serviceberry trees that were just starting to bud out. Almost all the trees had very large and healthy looking rootballs.
I planted the trees and now 2 weeks later the Serviceberrys are leafing out and one of them is producing flower buds i should probably prune tomorrow, so despite having started to break dormancy before they arrived they appear to have avoided any substantial shock.
The apple, E. Pear, Peach and Apricot are starting to push buds now. The only tree that is slow to wake up is the Olympic pear. That is also the only one that had less roots (more similar to the minimal roots of trees ive got from other places) so Iām guessing thatās why -I do think I see what looks like a little swelling on buds so pretty sure itās alive still.
Will need to see how the trees do as the season continues, but overall Iām pretty happy with the trees at this time.
First impressions from this first order I would rate this nursery:
Price: 5/5. I was hard pressed to find other nurseries with comparable prices, especially if taking S&H into account that also had varieties i wanted.
Value for money: 5/5
These trees were packed well and looked healthy/ had impressive rootballs (with only one exception). For the price plus shipping my order worked out to under $30 per tree which is hard to beat even at a local nursery for me.
Communication/ customer service: 5/5 with the exception of a seeming mismatch of my preferred email domain and their email provider, every other attempt at contact was answered quickly (esp considering this is a family run business) and helpfully.
Selection: 4.5/5
I spent quite a while narrowing down the varieties of trees i wanted to plant in my limited space. While this nursery didnt have as many options overall as some, they still had a lot (and most of the ones i wanted) including a few varieties I had a hard time finding at other places. This added to the value of the purchase since i could get most of the trees i wanted without paying for S&H at a half dozen nurseries.
Condition/appearence of trees received: 4.5/5
The only tree i wasnt extremely impressed by was the Olympic pear which was a little larger caliper than i expected and which had less extensive roots (more akin to other minimal bare roots Iāve gotten at other places). Every other tree made me put in more work than i expected to make sure the hole was big enough to accomadate the large root balls comfortably haha.
Accuracy of order: 5/5
*assuming the trees are labeled true to type, the shipment included the varieties on the rootstocks I had requested. (This is what I would expect, but since there are big name companies that dont accurately fill the order seemed worth mentioning).
Overall satisfaction: 5/5
Will have to see if that changes during the next months as the trees finish waking up and start growing, but at least as of this point Iām impressed and they will be at the top of my list of places to look for a variety i want to add in coming years. Glad to see the many positive comments about this nursery here so far seem to have been consistent with my first interaction with them.
In case thereās interest my order included:
Harmony Peach (on bailey)
Harcot Apricot (on Krymsk)
Roxbury Russet apple (on Bud.118)
Olympic Asain pear (on Bet)
Potomac Euro. Pear (on OHxF87)
And a few Alleghany Serviceberry seedlings.
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