Dutch Gardens - Merchant Review
Dutch Gardens sky blue bulb catalog has been a late Springtime fixture in American mailboxes for many, many years. Who would have thought there could possibly be so many daffodils, tulips and other Spring bulbs in the entire world, much less in one catalog!
For me, the Dutch Gardens web site surpasses the catalog. The flexibility of
web presentations means that a picture that could only be shown at 2"x2" in a
print catalog suddenly can fill the monitor, and you're sunk. You just gotta have that ruffly parrot tulip or yellow (yellow?) grape hyacinth. Things I could pass by with the turn of a page suddenly find themselves in my shopping cart.
The web site offers a nice selection of ways to find what you are looking for.
Do you need deer or rodent resistant bulbs? Click on that category and you will
be presented with pages and pages of wonderful choices. I knew daffodils were
to deer like spinach is to human children, but who knew there were so many
other bulbs the deer would avoid? Do you live in a drought stricken area like I
do? Get a nice selection of bulbs offered in that category. Of course you could
just cruise through the 9 pages of daffodils or 13 pages of tulips to find
something your garden just must have.
Dutch Gardens web site is a breeze to use, if you remember to look at the
bottom of the page for things like delivery time and shipping cost charts,
customer service and contact information.
Shipping costs are average for American shippers, and DutchGardens charges by the value of the order. It's as fair as any other way. A word about shipping -
with labor and fuel costs doing nothing but going up, no one really offers
free shipping. No company can afford to absorb the costs. So the cost of
shipping is hidden in the product prices. You may not notice that a company
that offers free shipping charges a little bit more for their product, but
that cost is there.
The customer service page deserves special mention, because there is almost no way you can NOT contact Dutch Gardens. By phone, email, a written note or fax Dutch Gardens makes themselves available to answer questions about ordering, an order you already placed or how to care for bulbs in your garden.
Dutch Garden's photo contest is one of the best promotions I've seen in a long
time. Simple rules and a very nice prize (from $50 to $200 in
gift certificates from Dutch Gardens
) make this a fun challenge for the amateur photographer and
gardener.
Garden catalogs that arrive in the dead of winter are life savers for those who
live for running water and green things. But more than these, fall bulb catalogs are a beacon of hope. Order in June, just as the garden is past the first blush of Spring and about to leap into Summer, plant in September as the leaves are coming down and wait for that magic moment 6 months hence when the first Ҥaffy noses comes pushing up. Indeed, hope does spring eternal.
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