I've always trusted and enjoyed shopping with gardens4you. Plant quality is good with a speedy delivery. Recently though I received a delivery where the plants just shouldn't have been sent out, after my initial disappointment, decided to wait to see if they would make a comeback which they didn't, that was when I decided to contact customer service. They responded very quickly, just asked me to send a photo as evidence and they would then replace the order if they still had them in stock or refund me, I was more than happy with that response so all good. Easy to deal with this company even if you experience a problem. 👍
In a nutshell: two out of four plants I received were diseased (the other two are in quarantine waiting to see if they are also diseased) and customer service was rude and argumentive when I tried to ask for my money back (which I did after I had to threaten legal action and lateral flow tests to prove the diseased status of the plants, why is it always a battle?). The customer service in question replied from the UK, the plants came from the Netherlands, I ordered from gardens4you (dot) ie.
To get a response from The UK was bizarre as it's through an IE website and I will certainly be reporting gardens4you for using an IE website to "weare" (dot) ie and the relevant authorities for abusing Irish internet infrastructure and cyberspace.
I am also calling out the nursery (ies?) in the Netherlands for their obvious poor care of plants and the many holes in gardens4you in general's Standard Operating Procedures and Policies I can immediately digress from my experience.
I tried to bring this to their attention and resolve the dispute quietly but after the experience with the UK customer service and no response from Melvin Jansen who I tried to contact I am now bringing this to the public's attention.
Save your money DO NOT buy with Gardens4you, buy local or nationally (most local/national stores are happy to order more exotic plants for you), and support the Irish economy. We as an Irish customer base deserve better than the poor service from the Netherlands and rude customer service from The UK.
I was a bit disappointed when I got the flowers, I thought they were plants, but they were bare root. A few of the bare roots were dry.
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
May 2, 2023
Our site sells plants in various forms flower bulbs, rhizome, roots, plant in pots. It is therefore important to read the description.
The roots are always sent dry in order not to develop disease or mold. Most of them need to be soaked in water prior to plant them.
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May 2, 2023
plant arrived well packed and protected - quick delivery
understood it to be a red acer, it arrived green, presume it turns red, but no explanation
dpd 9delivery company gave no advance warning of delivery.
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
May 2, 2023
Our confirmation email with tracking arrived probably in your spams or deleted items. The acer that you ordered is a young specimen which will take its red tint as the text of the site indicates.
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Apr 30, 2023
Plants mostly good quality, one batch had small amount of root growth, but have just planted them and they may be fine. Tracking system does not really work, plants arrived quite quickly but no information about timing at all on tracking system. Timing of delivery Netherlands to Ireland often better than from Irish suppliers.
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Apr 27, 2023
Delivery partner DPD delivered the box upside down. 30 plants were uprooted from their pots.
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Apr 26, 2023
Great delivery service, thank you. Product was slightly smaller than expected but will hopefully grow
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Apr 26, 2023
Was expecting the trees to be more advanced.One of the trees didn’t even have a leaf .Hopefully they will grow to be healthy trees hard to know 🤞
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
May 2, 2023
Our plants are cultivated outdoor. We have -1ºC at night and 12ºC during the day, it is very cold for a month of May. Do not worry the order is guaranteed, the leaves will develop later once the tree will be planted.
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Apr 24, 2023
The plants were lovely
Thank you
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Apr 24, 2023
Dispatch notification should be sent and delivery times need to be better.
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Apr 22, 2023
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Apr 20, 2023
The information is not consistent. It says Non poisonous and Poisonous in two different places for the same plants. Also the website is scrappy, it signs out automatically after some time and clears the shopping cart. I like to take my time selecting plants after considering several factors. It was annoying to lose all the items in the cart just when you're ready to add another few.
Finally, the pricing is inconsistent too in terms of value - some plants are good value, some are overpriced. I'm planting a new largish garden, and wanted to pick up all plants from here to make the most of the shipping price however some were too pricey to consider. Guess I'll have to go to the neighbourhood garden centre for those
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
May 2, 2023
Thank you for your feedback.
Let's face it, 70% of the plant kingdom contains plants that are poisonous or dangerous if ingested alone. And 70% of these plants are found every day in our homes and gardens without any accident, because this is very rare in the whole world.If your shopping cart is empty it would be necessary to accept the cookies and not to block them check this in your internet browser and in your options.
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Apr 20, 2023
Supply plants etc that are older and bigger
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Apr 20, 2023
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Apr 20, 2023
Easy to purchase good range of plants at a reasonable price
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Apr 19, 2023
fast delivery
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Apr 18, 2023
Good plant variety
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Apr 17, 2023
I received the plants this morning and I have planted them, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating.
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Apr 13, 2023
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Apr 12, 2023
It was a good service but when DPD delivered they dumped the box over the garden wall on top of my friends plants damaging some of them and the box was soaking. DPD let this company down.
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
Apr 19, 2023
Thank you for your feedback. We have contacted your local depot and informed dpd of our sadness and displeasure over this kind of "wild" delivery not to be repeated from them.
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Apr 10, 2023
Good quality plants but the delivery charge is too much.
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Answer by gardens4you.ie
Apr 19, 2023
The shipping cost for Ireland is €18.95 in total we pay €4 per package in addition to the €14.95 and each additional box costs us €18.95. If you group your orders with friends or neighbors these costs are quite acceptable especially if you order 10 trees that will be delivered for €14.95 you won't find cheaper for very good products quality from the Netherlands
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