Has anyone received their orders from Bay Laurel Nursery yet?
Last year, I received them on this exact day, however, I didn’t get any confirmation email that my trees had shipped.
This year, I ordered one Ghost Apple and a Flavorella plumcot. I asked them to ship them early January; So about four days ago, I sent them an email asking them when will my order be shipped, but they haven’t replied yet. So I sent them another one yesterday.
They finally replied to my email today, " We just received the Ghost apples yesterday so your order will ship this coming week.
Thank you,."
Yup, they’re really busy right now, shipping trees out to the warmer areas like ours. Ellen emailed me yesterday to confirm my 6GM25 cherry was on its way. Bay Laurel is very, very good about getting their trees out in a timely manner. She did warn me that my 6GM 25 cherry would be on the small side, as all of them were small. I’m hearing this from multiple vendors that this new cultivar shipping out this year are small. But, no worries, it will grow. Cherries are precocious here.
Patty S.
What kind of fruit trees did you ordered, Patty?
That was quite a haul, Tim! I was wondering how well those and your other new transplants are doing now. Seeing that box full of trees is stirring some buying urges that I need to suppress!
Ulises, from Bay Laurel it was just the 6GM25 cherry this year, but in I’ve ordered other trees from them in previous years. I like the company a lot, I think they’re a nice bunch of folks and they grow some nice trees 
As far as new trees this year: Hunge apple, which has already arrived, and waiting to go in the ground, Just got my shipment from Trees of Antiquity, which are Black Limbertwig, King David, and Lady Williams apples (which the last one I had to replace, as my very wonderful hubby “overloved” the Lady Williams benchgraft I got from Kevin when I was out of state visiting our daughter). I have Abbe Fetel Pear coming from Raintree, and I have Shui Mi Tao peach & Cristobalina cherry coming from Arboretum Co at some time completely unknown (which is par for the course, and no big surprise - they will come when the come). I think that’s it. At least, that was all I added to my spreadsheet. Hopefully I didn’t order more and have a “surprise” shipment. Running out of room, and may need to pull poor performers to add all of these into my landscape.
Patty S.
My order has shipped. According to thecteacking number, it will be arriving tomorrow.
They must have had a very busy packing day, my tree is arriving tomorrow as well.
Yeah, I know what’s like to work in shipping.
I got my Bay Laurel order last week – 6GM25, Double Delight and Geo Pride. All in good shape but as mentioned the cherry is a fairly small whip. Didn’t even have a real DW variety label on it (just the rootstock). I like Bay Laurel quite a bit. Must be fun to do their shipping with all the rain up there!
From my experience, it seems you get larger trees and more for your $ buying trees grown in CA from growers like DWN and Trees of Iniquity vs trees grown in other regions. The 1 year trees of all types with the exception of maybe apples just seem to grow faster in CA.
I find buying the larger 1-2 year trees to be a good thing except on peaches where small whips are much preferred that will more likely push out new buds below a 2’ whack at planting. I have had to do the planting whack at the less desirable 3’ on some DWN purchased peach trees because of the lack of buds below that mark. The smallish caliper peach whips from east coast growers like Vaughn’s on Guardian rootstock can handle the low whack and still put on a amazing amount of 1st year growth.
My bare root tree order has arrived.
I ordered one Flavorella Plumcot, one Butte Almond, and a Ghost Apple, a White Skin apple.
Please let us know how ghost apple does for you. It sounds interesting. We’re they decent sized trees?
They are only 3 feet tall.
Ya’ll aint from Michigan. 
Hello, new here but passing on, I received the 4 in 1 low chill peach that I ordered from Bay Laurel on 1/13/17 that was ordered in mid November last year. It is now out in my yard but with the funky weather down here this winter who knows when it will wake up. The tree must be about 4 ft tall. The first three feet are trunk, with the last being the different grafted varieties.
That’s my concern with ordering from Bay Laurel…getting trees in early February that are already leafing out.