Just a short post (where does the time for wordy posts with pictures come from when you have little ones?) to share the lovely experience I had with Stark Bro's recently.
I purchased 8 bare root fruit trees from them in the fall and got them planted successfully. 7 of the trees started getting leaves in March and by this point look like normal trees. My Montemorency Pie Cherry only had 2 leaves by April and those fell off in early May.
I called up the company and told them that my tree died and a week later I had a replacement (free tree and free shipping). It's taller and has more limbs than the one I got in the fall, so I'm hopeful that it will live. I desperately want some fresh cherry pie!