Terms & Conditions

Planting instructions:
• Growing trees in PEI requires essential care and maintenance. Every type of fruit tree sold on this web site requires adequate staking/support and pest protection.
• PDF instructions

Order cancellations and product availability:
• We reserve the right to cancel excessive, illegitimate or fraudulent orders.
• Product availability has been entered on this web site on a best effort basis. Due to situations beyond our control such as winter kill, rodent damage, clerical errors, etc. some order modifications may be required during fulfillment. We will notify you if this applies to your order.

Reservation policy:
• Trees will only be held for 3 days after your scheduled pickup date. After this time your order will be canceled. This is a strict policy.
• Pickup dates are available from April 18 to May 8.
• Accurate and reliable contact details must be entered in the order screen.

Payment and pickup:
• All orders are for pickup in Wheatley River, PE. Payment by cash is due on pickup, or please contact us prior to arrival for alternate payment methods.

Tree size:
• Most of the fruit trees are 1 year old bare-root whips (single trunk) unless otherwise noted. The size indicated is the height of the above ground portion of the whip. Some of the taller whips will likely need pruning at planting time.

Tree hardiness:
• All fruit trees sold on this website are rated to Zone 4 or lower unless otherwise noted.
• Generally speaking, apples and some hybrid varieties of plums are the most cold hardy.
• Customers in Prince/northwestern Queens counties, New Brunswick or in coastal/unprotected areas should do further research for cold hardiness by variety.
• Early few years the Maritimes experiences unseasonable blasts of extremely cold arctic air that may damage the fruiting wood of some species such as peaches, sweet cherries and Asian pears. This last occurred 2023-02-04 and 2017-02-12.

When you'll get fruit:
It depends on several factors:
• Apples, Japanese/Hybrid plums and Apricots usually start blooming in their 3rd to 4th year.
• European pears and plums may take 5 years or more to develop fruiting wood.
• Asian pears usually develop fruiting wood earlier than European pears.
• Growing conditions, climate, pest management, pruning styles and soil nutrients will drastically
impact your tree's performance.

Warranty:
• If planting and care instructions are followed all trees are guaranteed to leaf out by July 15.
• All trees are guaranteed to be delivered to the customer in a disease free condition.
• Please contact us with any problems by July 15. Replacement or future purchase credit only.

What is a rootstock:
• It is the roots of the tree underground up to the graft union a few inches above ground.
• Rootstocks are developed for tree hardiness, vigor, precociousness (faster reproductive maturity), consistency, disease and pest resistance, as well as dwarfism.

Apple rootstock size guide: