Need help sourcing a few trees

Orchard veterans, I need a little help.

I have room for about 5 fruit trees. I want a couple apples, and one each of peach, apricot, and cherry. I'm in the Ozarks, Zone 6a, though I think it is closer to 6b. I would like semi-dwarf trees of good size. I have all the equipment I need to transplant larger trees. I would like traditional or heirloom varieties well suited to the area. With whom would you all recommend that I do business?

I have had good luck with Raintree Nursery. You can Google them. In fact I just rec'd an order from them yesterday. My apples, about 25, are semi dwf. and are mostly heirloom.
RED

Another satisfied Raintree customer here.

But I gather from your question that you are looking for a local source for larger trees, not the bare-root varieties shipped by mail.

If you are considering mailorder at all, you might check with Edible Lanscaping in Afton, Virginia. http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/

They send plants already growing in pots so the costs of shipping are a bit steep, but the plants have a better chance to settle in this close to hot weather. My absolute favorite apple is the heirloom Arkansas Black, but alas! I can't grow it here - not enough winter chill. Yuska

Starks is out of Missouri and is the company I use. I have been very happy with them.

I, too, like Raintree. I also like Bay Laurel Nursery and Trees of Antiquity, though both tend to start selling very early and sell out before I am ready to plant. I just put them in huge flower pots if it is too early to dig and that seems to work. Trees of Antiquity has great old timey fruit trees. I have ordered from Starks and gotten good trees, but I get better and stronger ones from the other three nurseries. One thing I will say for Stark is that their ordering season is longer than the others, so I can order from them later in the Spring which is nice because it is cool late here.

Well, I ordered from Stark. I was leaning toward Trees of Antiquity, but my acreage, and everything around me, is packed with Eastern Red Cedar and I opted out on the heirlooms and went with hybrids known for Cedar-Apple Rust resistance.

Always good to go with types resistant to the diseases in your area. Luckily you were able to find what you wanted.

Did you get an Enterprise?

I also have a problem with the cedar-apple rust, and I'm hoping my young Enterprise fruits this year so I can taste what I've got.

Yes, I got Enterprise and and Prairie Spy. The Prairie Spy didn't list rust resistance, but I couldn't resist its description and its bloom time is right on track with the Enterprise. Got a Redhaven peach, too. Now all I have to do is baby them and wait two years.

Make sure not to get a Gold Rush if you want CAR resistance -- its very disease resistant except for CAR, and unfortunately its a CAR magnet.

Scott

Thanks, Scott. I'm not a gold apple fan, so no problem there.

I've never had a better apple than the honeycrisps my Dad brought me from Minnesota. I can't grow them in Mississippi, but you should have enough chill hours there. They were developed by U of Minn. around 10 years ago. Oh no- I have zone envy....! ;-)

Susan

Well, the trees arrived yesterday afternoon and I scrambled to get them planted, since the forecast was for a cold, windy day today and over the weekend. We got a Meyer Lemon and a Key Lime to put in our sun room, too.

I have a honeycrisp entering its second year. Can't wait for it to bear fruit! This year I am hoping it will bear flowers!