Do you purchase plants online?

Garden centres here are usually closed when I get home from work in the evenings and I sometimes have to work at weekends, so I tend to buy all my plants online. They are well packed in little black pots which are then placed in a larger plastic container. They cost a little more than what I would pay in the garden centres, but there is also a guarantee with them and I also received free gifts. Sometimes this could be a large bucket of bulbs or an ornamental plant in a nice vase. I usually buy shrubs and vegetable plants and sometimes a few plants for around the borders of my garden.

I've bought qute a few bare root plants from Bakker here in Dublin. They have a lot of specialty varities of fruit that just aren't available otherwise. Most of the stuff I bought has done well, although it was often far more expensive then it should have been. For instance, they had dwarf citrus for 35 euro, but I picked up one very similar at a local shop for only 7 euro. The most important thing to me is that they have a no quibble policy when you complain. I have had a few things die, and as they are guaranteed for 5 years, it's a nice safety net. All I had to do was ring them and a refund check arrived within the week.

I have purchased bulbs on line, which arrived in excellent condition. They bloomed and have come back each year. The company sent me many bonus bulbs and a bulb planter.