Reviewed by Kory in Lees Summit, MO on 7/20/2009:

We saw this online and we thought... yeah right. We got our empress tree and it grew maybe to 3 feet. Then my dog decided it was the best stick to chew in the winter and chewed it to the ground. We bought one of the larger ones thinking of replacing the one we had. Before the new tree got here the other one had come out of the ground and grew a foot. It is already 6 feet now and about the same size as the one we bought. Amazing tree.

Reviewed by Jen in Dripping Springs, TX on 7/15/2009:

I received my package this morning. I want to tell you how impressed I am by your company. We opened the box containing our five empress trees. Your packaging was PERFECT!!! The trees are so healthy that when I showed my husband from across the room, he thought that they were fake trees. The way you guys secure and package them shows that you really care. I appreciate it and cannot wait to get them in the ground. Thanks a million!!!! I am going to tell everyone how pleased I am! Expect to get a bunch of orders from this little town.

Reviewed by Kevin in Nashville, TN on 7/15/2009:

I bought one of these last summer and it grew in a pot in the house the first season. I let it stay in the pot all winter in the house. In June we planted it outside and did very little to the soil, we basically just dug a hole and planted it. Now it is about 8 ft tall with leaves as big as Beach Balls. And the base of the stalk is about 10 inches in circumference. This thing is on STEROIDS in Tennessee......

Reviewed by Lucy in Jeffersonville, IN on 7/13/2009:

I planted this last year and was careful to follow all the instructions. Everything was going great untill my dog dug it up and ate it. A little while later, I planted what was left of it. It grew about three feet after that, I was stunned. I cut it down to ground level for it to grow better this year (2009). It started growing out in three stems, so i had to cut off the other two and left the straightest strongest one. Since I did that in June it has grown at least 8 more feet! My neighbors laughed at me and now they are all coming by to ask what it is. My sons love the huge leaves, and my dog stays away.

Reviewed by Heather in Brockton, MA on 7/12/2009:

I received my empress tree last year in late summer, it didn't grow very well- only about 2 feet until it lost it's leaves and was a stick in the fall. So this spring came and I cut it down like everyone said they did to about 2 inches, this was the end of March. Well now it is July and it is almost taller than me, it is about 5 feet 3 inches tall. I measure it about once a week and I will tell you it grows about 4-5 inches a week! I am so happy that I cut it back! Its awesome! The leaves on it are literally 5 times the size of my hand! I even took some pictures. My husband can't believe how big they are and how fast this tree grows. Pretty soon we will have privacy from the neighbors out back!! I can't wait until it flowers. Happy growing!

Reviewed by Annie in Allentown, PA on 7/7/2009:

I love our empress trees. I bought two and like the rest of the reviews they have sprung up like weeds. I love how you can control the growth. I have even grown a third from a single leaf. Both trees are two years old now and about 20 feet high. I love the big leaves and the shape.

Reviewed by Rebecca in Jensen Beach, FL on 7/7/2009:

Our three empress trees were a gift to my husband for his birthday in April. We planted our plants on Easter Sunday 2009. It has been 12 weeks and 2 days since we planted and they are 53 inches tall as of this morning. They have grown 4 inches the last 5 days! They have branches coming out on them now and the green stem is beginning to turn to wood. These trees are amazing!!!! My 8 year old Grandson gets the biggest kick out of measuring them every day and today they are taller than he is by an inch. We recommend these trees to everyone who asks. Besides the fact that what you say about these trees is true (a rare quality in today's world) they are a blast to watch grow. All my neighbors laughed the day we planted those little gree plants, but who is laughing now? Everyone around us is amazed and wants to know how to get these trees for themselves. We are looking forward to seeing what the next 12 weeks brings. Thanks again for an amazing product! These trees are really what you say they are.

Reviewed by Dick in Nampa, Idaho on 7/7/2009:

The empress tree grows fast! When winter came, all leaves dropped off. Then spring came and it started growing again. We are now in the third year, and the tree is about 20 feet tall, but we haven't seen any blooms yet. Perhaps it is because the soil is so bad.. tough clay!

Reviewed by Swati in Chicago, IL on 6/30/2009:

I have never purchased trees online, but I thought I'd give Fast Growing Trees Nursery a shot because I fell in love with the empress tree. My tree arrived quickly, and was superbly packaged (WOW!!!!). I was very impressed by the quality of the tree, and planted it according to the instructions they included right away. My tree was not the stick some people received, but a small trunk with a half dozen leaves. Because of my success with this tree and this company, I will be placing more orders with them this year. I really enjoyed doing business with them and would recommend them highly. (I cannot comment on the tree's growth, as I just received it a week or so ago. However I can tell you it has adapted nicely to the sucky clay soil and hot then cold and sometimes windy Chicago weather we have here.)

Reviewed by Ms. Krissy in Killen, TX on 6/29/2009:

I got my 6" tree 2 years ago. It grew about a foot the first year, then I chopped it to the ground. The next season it came back as 2 trees, and a couple of little green leaves, so I chopped it down again. This season.. I have an 11 foot tree, filled with big leaves, and got purple flowers at the very beginning of the season, that lasted maybe a week. I'm hoping next season, I get more flowers, and they stay on for awhile. I get so many compliments on my tree, all my neighbors laughed at me, when I had my lil plant in the middle of my front lawn...but I'm the one laughing now. :) I love my tree!

Reviewed by Skylar in Olathe, KS on 6/17/2009:

I just had a storm at my house a few days ago with winds in excess of 90-110 MPH! Lots of large trees were damaged and houses were blown apart. But miraculously though our empress tree is going strong! This is a tree that survived hurricane conditions without a problem. I love the tree, it is FABULOUS!

Reviewed by Diana in Luka, MS on 6/17/2009:

Bought my tree in february, and it is now June and over 5 ft 8 in tall!

Reviewed by VJ in Bossier City, LA on 6/16/2009:

I live in Bossier City, Louisiana, and the sun is unbearable in the summer. I needed shade in my back yard so I planted two empress trees. This was two years ago. Now they are both 20 feet tall and about 15 feet wide and provide plenty of shade. I don't have to rake thousands of leaves like my neighbors do for their shade trees. The leaves are so big that I just pick them up by hand as they drop in the fall. The other plants in my yard benefit front the shade also and grow much better. I am dreading the day I get military orders to another base and have to leave my trees behind, but I will definitely remember to purchase them for my next home, wherever it may be.

Reviewed by Steve in NY on 6/15/2009:

The Royal Empress is quite the Tree, the first year she grew nicely to almost 10 feet, but we cut her to the ground . Well, this spring she sent up 4 new shoots, so we cut out the weakest of the lot and low and behold, the tree is growing at a phenomenal rate, in six weeks she is now 4 feet and beautiful again. One odd thing, the stick we cut down was thrown in back of the barn and left there as waste, but when I went to the back to throw it in the trash I notices buds growing out of the dead wood!!! Or so I thought it was dead. Anyway, I cut up pieces and planted them, YES, I now have three more trees in the making, The Empress is one super survivor, and fun to grow! I get many oohs and ahhhs!

Reviewed by Jennifer in Austin, TX on 6/15/2009:

We got our empress tree in the mail and planted it right away. Our Boston Terrier puppy chewed it to the ground three times and each time it came back. It started growing very fast and we decided it move it. I told my husband that we would transplant it in the fall. I came home one day in AUGUST and he had dug up the tree and moved it to the choice location. I just knew it was going to die this time. I've never had any tree that had been so abused! It survived the move. When spring came, purple blooms burst from pods on the top of the tree. It's about 15 feet tall now. We love our indestructible royal empress tree!!!!

Reviewed by Skylar in Olathe, KS on 6/10/2009:

On Earth Day this year, I was looking up a great tree to buy, one that would grow really fast. So I found the Empress Tree and loved it. We got it exactly one month later, May 22. It was packaged beautifully in its little pot. We now moved it into a bigger pot on our deck and it will stay there until I plant it on Independance Day.

Every few days there is a new set of leaves bigger than the last. I love my little tree, I saw a picture of one twice as tall as a human that was only two months old! The tree is surviving well in my windy Olathe Kansas Climate!

Reviewed by Jan in Central TX on 6/9/2009:

I bought a Royal Empress tree last March. Planted it, and my son stepped on it and broke it off at the ground. I thought it was a goner, so I dug it up and replaced it. I had only the roots and about 1/2 inch of stick left, but I replanted it in another area of my yard, if it didn't grow no big deal.... Well, in about 2 weeks it was already 6-8 inches again.... So now, 14 months later....I have a tree that is over 25 foot tall, 10 - 12 ft wide... It had purple flowers on it back in the spring... I do agree that this is the fastest growing tree!!! I love my tree!!!!!

Reviewed by Henny in Redding, CA on 6/8/2009:

Never have I had a tree like the Royal Empress. Six months later it's over 8 feet tall and growing by the day, we can actually see it grow. Our neighbors really do ask us about it. It is truly an amazing tree. One I will have to order again.

Reviewed by Shane in Panama City, FL on 5/31/2009:

I bought these late in the growing season last year. I had heard to plant trees in the colder months. It was bitter cold last winter and the trees died...or so I thought. At the first sign of spring I had brand new tree stalks right beside the old ones. They grew taller than when the old ones in just a week. I have two. One is in bad soil and one is in good soil. You can almost tell no difference between them. Best money I have ever spent.

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