Great Garden Plants Nursery Review

Great Garden Plants rating and grade stayed the same this month. 

The woman who owned Great Garden Plants and her husband, have pretty good reputations within the industry.  Having worked in the online plant nursery business for 10 years, you see a little bit of everything.  I’ve never met them, but they seem to genuinely care.   

They both retired and sold their business in January, 2019 to Spring Meadow Nursery. Spring Meadow is also family operated and they also have a very good reputation within the industry. Spring Meadow is a grower/propagator. They do not sell retail.

GreatGardenPlants.com seems to have a larger focus on perennials and ground covers but they do have a decent selection of evergreen shrubs.  Evergreen trees & shrubs are listed together.  I couldn’t find a category page dedicated to just evergreen shrubs. It is also confusing as a user to go to a category page and have so many options and links to over 500 varieties?

The sizes available online at Great Garden Plants range from 3” pots to 1 gallon sizes.  Good range of sizes, just smaller then you can find on other sites.  Their prices are great!

Great garden Plants launched a new & improved website just over 2 years ago.  It is a lot cleaner looking.  For me, it’s a bit obvious they are plant geeks, not marketing geeks.  As a marketing nerd myself, I notice a number of small things that could be tweaked to make the site a better experience for the user and probably increase their sales.

Their guarantee is similar to Garden Crossings. In other words, it is pretty good.  They have a ‘No Risk 30 Day Guarantee’ that actually offers a refund, not a store credit.  There is one thing in the fine print; “A plant refund is based on the plant cost less discounts and shipping charges.”

They also brag about their plants having larger root systems.  “We ship jumbo size plants with hefty root systems that outperform smaller plants obtained from other mail order nurseries.”

Overall, quality people running a good site.

What were the red flags?  We didn't have any!