Yes, Durio ships and they do a very nice job packaging. I dare say that a tree shipped from Durio would make it to the west coast undamaged, that's how good the packing looked to me. Best way I've found to contact Dalton at Durio is to call him on his cell phone. It is also probably best to call him anyhow since the website is usually not up to date. I wanted a Malta (Celest) last fall and only 1 gallon was listed on the website but he had 3 gallon in stock too which is what I wanted.