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Classy Groundcovers - Good Plants at a Good Price, Make Sure You're Ready to Plant
May 06 '07 (Updated May 06 '07)
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I have a slope next to my house that I have issues with. I built a rock
wall at the bottom from the rocks on my property, and the sandy fill
washing out reached the tops of those rocks already. I needed something
more to start holding the slope together, especially during these
horrific "100 year storms" we’ve been getting - 3 of them since we
moved here. 300 years goes by awful fast.
My idea was daylilies, but the price most everywhere I looked was
so expensive I was really getting deterred from doing this.
Fortunately, I came across the website for Classy Groundcovers.
Classy Groundcovers is cheaper for many plants over other gardening and plant websites. This is because they DON’T
guarantee their plants. This is important to know upfront because if
the plants die you won’t get a replacement. It’s also important to know
because, unlike other websites I’ve ordered from which monitor the
weather where I live before shipping, Classy Groundcovers doesn’t.
For this reason, it’s important to know what you’re ordering and if you’re ready to plant it. Classy Groundcovers
offers free shipping - a big plus. You can also put a shipping date in
at checkout if you think you can predict when the time will be right to
plant in your area. They are conscientious in that they only ship on
days when the plants will reach you before the weekend and prevent them
from sitting around in a warehouse.
It’s easy to find plants at Classy Groundcovers. On the
home page there are drop-down selections for search on the left-hand
side. For those of us in more adverse climates, this makes it easy to
see exactly what will work in our planting zone. Other options include
Bloom Color, Sun Exposure, and the purpose to the planting. I already
had a pretty good idea as to what I wanted when I wandered onto the
site. I was very pleased at their Daylily Hybrid Mix which
offered 50 bare-root plants of a variety of Daylilies for $28.50. Prior
to this, the cheapest I was able to find any daylily bulbs was 3 for
$10.
I ordered 100 of them, thinking this was like other sites where
they watched the weather and sent them to my area when the planting
time was right. Imagine my surprise when they arrived a couple of days
later, just in time for an 8-inch snowstorm in April! They came by
FedEx too, which I was impressed with considering the shipping was
free.
The plants looked good and were wrapped in newspaper along with
some dirt. I tried to keep the plants moist in the box and keep our
animals out of it. The recent nor’easter hit us the following Monday
and left snow/ice/rain/flooding behind. All in all, it was more than 10
days before I could put the plants in the ground. My fault, really,
because I should have paid more attention. When I went to put them in
the ground, they didn’t look so hot.
I emailed customer service after reading about their lack of plant
guarantee. This is why their plants are cheaper than many other sites.
Those sites build into the cost the fact that they pretty much know
there’s a percentage they will have to re-ship. Classy Groundcovers
does not. Well. Surprisingly a woman from their place got back to me
that same afternoon and told me to cut away the parts that had yellowed
and browned and just plant everything else. These plants were pretty
hard to kill!
I did as she told me to and they do look a lot better since being
in the ground. They may have taken a set-back this first year, but I
think I’ll have success with the plants overall.
If you are looking for a good price on plants, you’ll find it at Classy Groundcovers.
Make sure you have your planting date in mind when you order, or just
order when the time is right. I would have no qualms about ordering
from them again seeing how good the lilies seem to be doing even with
the adverse start they had. Next time I know better!
website: http://www.classygroundcovers.com
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© 2007 Patti Aliventi
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