I used to sell fig trees locally for $10 a few years back. Everything has gone way up in recent times.
Freedom Tree Farms LLC in Morrison TN has 3 gallon apple and other common fruit trees for $13.50, and 7 g. for less than double that. Branched trees.
Minimum order of all plants is 500, but that could include things like blueberries at $8ā¦50 and things like birch trees at $13.
(Or a $5,000 minimum.) This is not āretailā but trees approximate quality of Trees of Antiquity.
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I used to go to Maui at least once a year, why, itās cheap. Now I canāt afford to go there. I would avoid summer, itās pretty hot enough in the winter.
Flights are cheap but not hotels and car rentals.
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I fly out of DIA. No flights are cheap where I am. When I was 17 which is about 9.5 years ago I went to Florida with my mom. I think the flight alone was over 2.5k for two people. The reason is our local airport is host to a bunch of international and domestic plane flights. Only time I saw affordable flights was in 2020 when do few people were traveling that airlines almost went under. My plane in 2020 was almost empty until we got to our connecting flight. Other than that time things are super expensive where I fly out. We have learned how to cheapen things like getting a Uber ride instead of parking.
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I used to pay $112 one way, from LAX to Maui. Now we even have Southwest to Hawaii, so there competition. Uber is Uber expensive here, could be $200 a ride from my place to LAX, same with Lyft. So what I did went I came back last time and my daughter didnāt pick me up, I rented a car from LAX to home and returned it the second day for 1/3 of the cost.
Sometimes you have to get creative. This coming winter vacation back home i had no issues finding a reasonably priced rental but last year the cheapest was $88 per day! And that was across all rental companies. I was even contemplating buying a used car when i noticed while playing with the dates that the hang up was new years; rentals before and after were cheap but going over new years made every single rental day overpriced. So i rented for two weeks at $44 per day, returned it the evening of the 31st, and picked the car back on the first of January for another week at $38 per day.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. I think one has to play around with the dates.
Last year I rented 2 weeks from London Heathrow Airport for about Ā£300, I checked for next year, itās to Ā£800 for similar time frame. I decided to take the train and then rent locally for Ā£100 for 10 days. The plus side is no driving, my husband gets to rest, and I donāt mind the scenery along the way.
That is what I had to do with my trip to Hawaii. From Saturday to Saturday for 2 weeks it was going to be almost 9k minimum. At Clarkās suggestion I changed days. It went to 7k almost 8k. I went one week earlier and all of a sudden it was 6k almost 7k. Same amount of days but days changed and the week mattered. I got everything but food, gas and excursions with that. I got 300 something dollars on a Costco card so that may even pay for gas there. Uber or Lyft here is 50 dollars 1 way to or from the airport so 100 both ways. I think it is 12 dollars to park outside the airport so it will be 168 dollars to park there with my trip no gas included.
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Iām retired, so one of my hobbies is to find great travel deals and travel as cheaply as I can, plus I can travel any time I want, I donāt have to go the most busy time. One year I stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Maui for about $2000 a week in January. I just checked on booking.com, the same week today is $11k, thatās too rich for my blood.
When I was booking the vacation I went on Costco vacations to book because I would get so much back. I got a 300 something dollar card, 2% with executive membership and 4% on my card which equates to 300 something dollars and 6% back on the vacation. They waived the damage fee and the reservation fee as well. We paid almost 6.7k for the hotel, a direct flight with the fees on it, and the car rental and will be getting a decent amount back for a 14 day vacation. That is not cheap but to me vacations are not cheap. I went on a local vacation to Grand Lake CO this year. It was 600 dollars for 2 nights because we stayed the weekend. What I paid was comparable to the Caribbean in my view. Maybe a bit more. I had the vacation list sorted from lowest cost to highest and above the lowest option was a hotel that cost 20k to go to ( Relais and Chateaux). There are people willing to pay high prices for anything. Kind of like what was mentioned at the top of this thread where people listed places like Fast Growing Trees, Nature Hills and what not as examples of trees being expensive but they are just companies that charge way too much there are companies that charge way too much for anything. What surprised me with Hawaii were the hidden fees. I was going to go with a Villa because it was in the same price range as the cheaper hotels and was in the Wailea area but found out that hotel that they have that rate as a non refundable rate or you can pay 9 or 10k for a refundable rate. I ended up choosing the Aston at the Maui Banyon package which still had a hidden fee of 120 dollars for a cleaning fee for my 14 day visit but that was the most doable hidden fee.
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Iām surprised that those places are that expensive. I only book rental cars with Costco. I book everything else online with either booking.com, Trivago, or hotels.com. I also have lots of free points to stay at expensive hotels like the Hyatt.
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I did basically the same with the trees I bought. I put one here at home and one at work (I have 2 courtyards where I pretty much can grow anything legal).
Scott
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bummer!
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It was āone or four thoughts aheadā Dax
The travel industry pretends to sell you specials but they are in the prowl for squeezing as much money as they can out of you. Try to book a flight last minute and theyāll gore you with a smile, 10 minutes later when they canāt find a sucker theyāll sell it for cents on the dollar. Some may say that this is basic capitalism but i loved flying in Japan; you knew that what you paid for your seat was the same standard fare that everybody around you paid.
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Buying seedlings or planting seedsā¦then graftingā¦is still a real ābargainā
(Depends on the value of your time I suppose.)
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Two years ago I bought a Stark Bros 4 in 1 Asian pear on dwarf rootstock. Paid a pretty penny for it. Two of the varieties have died. I would never do that now. I would graft my own and on a bigger rootstock.
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On a āfreeā pear rootstock, probably. (A callery.) 
I figured the tube/pot would work well as protection from things like weed whackers and such. the maintence crew at work told me they appreciated it being planted that way because it was clear what was what.
Any ideas on how hardy the Rosseyanka?Rojo tree is? I figure the courtyard buys me a zone (surrounded by 4 heated walls).
Scott
It lives with Cliff.
Heās zone 7a. You can probably think at -13 for Rosseyanka and 0 F for Rojo Brillante (if the appearance is kaki) probably to -5 F or I donāt know maybe -8. If more American it could be hardier. The appearance is going to say a lot. You know as I told you, Cliff thinks itās the best-tasting persimmon he owns.
Dax
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