I ordered many fruit trees and fruit plants to be delivered for Autumn planting, I receieved my strawberry plants early as they were in stock and ready for planting, not all survived initial planting (they were alive when the arrived) but many of those that did proliferated quick to fill in the area. Roll on a few months and in early Nov I had all my others delivered to me. Item are very well packed with shredded paper or straw (composted after) used to protect the plants and the plants are securley kept in place with plastic wrapping and tape. All my plants are now in the ground ready for the next growing season. My fruit trees were all very well shaped and cut for a typical bush shape which was what I wanted, allowing me to further prune for my ideal shape. I would recommend and will use again happily, they stock many varieties which are hard to get elsewhere and give a lot of sound advice on their website, with great prices.