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The
following ONLY applies to spring shipping and is irrelevant after
June. After June, we just ship ASAP, which is usually 7-10 days
(except the peak months of April thru mid-May when it will take longer) after
the order is placed depending on when the order comes in during the
week. Later in the summer, turn around is even more quickly.
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We
schedule shipping by the following table in
spring for 4 reasons
1.
Plants arrive at a relatively safe planting time (around your average last
Frost date) 2.
Greenhouse grown plants can travel safely in the back of unheated Postal
Trucks, be on unheated loading docks and airport Tarmacs without being damaged by
cold 3.
The thousands of orders we ship in the short 9 week peak season are balanced
more or less evenly so we can actually get all the shipments out on
schedule. 4.
The beginning dates of this schedule coordinate with our production
schedule. We pot all winter with the goal in mind of starting shipping
in mid-March
| Most
of the country: (All but AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA) |
| Zone
9 & 10 |
March
17th |
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or
as soon as the plants are ready |
| Zone
8 |
March
24th |
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or as soon as the plants are
ready |
| Zone
7B |
March
31 |
Zone 7A |
April 7th |
or ASAP thereafter |
| Zone
6B |
April
14th |
Zone 6A |
April
21st |
or ASAP thereafter |
| Zone
5B |
April
28th |
Zone 5A |
May
5th |
or ASAP thereafter |
| Zone
4B |
May
12th |
Zone 4A |
May
19th |
or ASAP thereafter |
| Zone
3B |
May
26th |
Zone
3A |
May
26th |
or ASAP thereafter |
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| West
Coast States of AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA |
Due
to federal regulations, plants to these states require dipping in
special chemicals to prevent the spread of Japanese Beetles to these
states. This chemical makes plants more sensitive to heat in
transit so we don't ship in June,
July and August. |
| All
West Coast Zones |
April
14th
thru June 2 |
No
shipping in June, July, Aug. |
Sept.
1st thru Nov. 10th |
Spring
West
Coast Orders must change planes in
Northern Airport Hubs so they cannot be safely shipped earlier than
April 16th even though you could plant much sooner.
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Orders
placed Mid Spring and After: If you order comes in near or after your scheduled
ship date, we just work it into the schedule as soon as possible. We always ship by order number, 1st ordered,
1st shipped. Please understand
that, in particular, April is a madhouse in the plant shipping
industry! We can usually get orders that are placed in the middle of
the spring season shipped
within 7 to 10 days.
Can you ship my order earlier? We often get this
question if a particular area is having an early spring and unfortunately
the answer is almost always no. See link for more details. We
can ALWAYS ship later than the scheduled date for your zone.
We
will contact you IF the plants you've ordered have been grown
outside and/or can be shipped earlier. Other than that, we
have to adhere to the above schedule. We over-winter a few
very hardy plants outside and those can be shipped earlier than posted above
if you entire order consists of outside grown plants but we notify you when we confirm your ship date if we can ship earlier.
We
use ONLY the Horticulture Industry Standard, USDA
Zone Chart. (We and most of the industry do not go by the new
Arbor Day Zones, which have moved many people up to a warmer zone because
they're based on the last 15 years which many people believe was a cyclical
high when looking at 100 years of recorded weather.) We have to go by
some standard system. The USDA chart is the industry accepted
standard, so while you might feel that you're in a different zone, our
shipping is set up by zip code on the USDA chart. It's a fair system
-- and we have to have system, otherwise, shipping would be utter chaos!
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