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GARDENING EXPRESS

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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If you have recently purchased plants from this on line company please would you advise on your experience.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    If you do a search there are a few threads about that company, such as this one: Gardening Express — BBC Gardeners' World Magazine (gardenersworld.com) 

    Do you mean more recently? Have they improved? I haven't bought anything from then since I posted on that thread. However, I had an email a while ago asking me to fill in a questionnaire about them, can't remember who it was, may have been the GW team.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Busy-Lizzie Yes I agree there have been various threads. Gardeners will soon be making plans for next year and some will be purchasing new plants. It would be good to  hear from anyone recently who has had a positive experience.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    edited September 2023
    I've bought from them recently, a few redcurrant, jostaberry and osteospermum plants at £1 each and they are good. The packaging might be a bit rudimentary, still the plants arrived safely in good condition. I felt that there was nothing to lose with my small-value order, that is why I placed my order in spite of negative reviews.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Eustace As you may know there was a thread a few months ago that didn't make good reading. If anyone has bought plants from them over the summer please post.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    @GardenerSuze yes, I have seen many threads on gardening express.
    I was just relating my positive experience from my purchase last month. That's all.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Eustace Thankyou. Posts on Trust Pilot remain either amazing or dreadful.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They are no better,  they don’t allow any posts that are not good ones,  100+ are deleted from each their pictures,  you’ll find one or two that just say ‘Pretty’  all the others are deleted.  You can tell by the angry faced smilies what people thing.
    this is someone’s lavender plants arrived in June.



    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Thankyou @Lyn Is this a case of they die on the way to the customer or are they actully sending out plants that they know to be dead. Posts on this forum go back for years.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I would imagine they send them out like that,  plants don’t die that quickly. 
    There are so many bad reviews on Facebook,  not on the GE site as they remove those, but on other sites where people warn not to buy from them.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Lyn I hope that at least a few gardeners may read this thread in the next few days.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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