Gardening Direct is a Melbourne based company which provides gardening services as well as selling equipment, seeds, and plants online.
Introduction
Gardening Direct is a gardening services company which is based in Bundoora, Victoria, but it also has a website which sells gardening equipment as well as seeds and plants. The products they stock are environmentally friendly and where possible they provide non-toxic alternatives for pest control. Apart from plants, latest deals can be delivered anywhere in Australia. Plants can only be delivered within 50 km of their base in Bundoora. The website explains the different services they provide as well as the packages that are available to customers.
What is Gardening Direct?
Gardening Direct, Australia is a Melbourne based company which sells gardening equipment and top quality plants online as well as provides gardening services in the area.
Where are Gardening Direct based?
Gardening Direct is based in Bundoora, Victoria. Bundoora is located about 16 km north-east of the Melbourne CBD.
What is available to buy on Gardening Direct?
Gardening Direct provides gardeners which everything they need for their gardens. They do not sell flower seeds, but sell seeds of 25 different types of vegetables. For people who love gardening, they sell a veggie starter pack with free delivery. The starter pack contains everything you need to get your veggie garden started, including 10 packets of seeds. The website does not have a category for plants and shrubs although they encourage people to contact them by phone or through email. Here is a list of the categories on the website:
· Weed control
· sprayers and watering
· seeds
· pruning
· pest control
· on sale
· growing essentials
· grow now
· grafting
· gardening tools and accessories
· garden edging
· fertilisers
· disease control
Where do they ship to?
Gardening direct can ship to anywhere in Australia, but if you purchase plants and shrubs they can only be delivered to the area around Bundoora. They will deliver plants and shrubs to addresses up to about 50 km away, so that covers all of Melbourne and some of the neighbouring towns. If you live just outside their delivery area, you might be able to call or email them and get them to deliver plants to you. They use a courier delivery service. They might not be able to ship to a post office box, so you should make sure that you give your contact info and a street address.
“What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do Gardening Direct provide gardening services as well?
Gardening Direct provide gardening services which can be found under Garden Maintenance. They do everything connected with gardens from advice and consultation to mowing and lawn care. They will weed your garden and trim your trees and hedges. They will also get rid of green waste. They can also help you improve your soil.
They have a number of packages. You can choose from weekly, fortnightly, monthly and quarterly garden maintenance services. They are also available for one off garden maintenance services. You can contact them directly using a form on their website or by email or phone.
Advantages of using Gardening Direct
· Gardening Direct is a local company, so they are able to give helpful advice to their customers. They encourage their customers to contact them by phone or email, unlike a big company where you do not get personalised service.
· The products they sell are from reputable companies such as OCP which manufactures Australian Organic Registered home garden products. As well as selling their products under the OCP name, one of their other brands is eco-naturalure. You know that when you order a product from this website, you know that you are using the product that the gardening team are using.
· They sell alternatives to harmful chemicals. GoNatural is an Australian supplier of environmentally friendly products for pest management in gardens.
· Their products are competitively priced. When I compared the price of some of their products with other websites, I discovered that their products are about the same.
Disadvantages of using Gardening Direct
· Gardening Direct is a local business, so if you want their gardening services you will need to be living in and around Melbourne. If you are living in other regions of Australia, you may find that the advice they give is not necessarily suitable for you.
· There seems to be a very limited range of seeds available to buy and although they say that they deliver plants, they do not show what plants arrived or sell on the website.
· They do not have a wide variety of products, so you cannot compare products and choose the most suitable one for you. Instead you can only buy the one that they recommend.
FAQs about Gardening Direct:
Who owns Gardening Direct?
There is not much information about Gardening Direct. On their website, they say that they are a team that can offer expert advice for all your gardening needs and that they pride themselves on using natural and organic gardening methods for pest and disease control. They say that there are fully insured and their gardening team is qualified and experienced. For more information about organic gardening, see Good Organic Gardening.
“Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors”
Oscar de la Renta
What is on their blog?
Their first blog, which was posted in February, 2020, gives information about their delivery service, explaining where they deliver to and how much it costs. Their other blog posts give useful ideas about gardening using the products that they sell on their website. They have only started posting blogs since April 2022, and they seem to post approximately once a month. The topics are:
· 10 Garden Maintenance Tips for a Beautiful Yard
· Why You Should Start a Veggie Garden in Retirement
· How to Improve Soil Fertility with Black Grit
· How to Create Perfect Garden Edges with EverEdge
· How to Quickly Stop Citrus Gall Wasp: Methods That Work
· 5 Best Garden Edging Ideas with EverEdge
Is Gardening Direct trustworthy?
The Gardening Direct website is quite new and up until now there are no direct reviews online, so it is difficult to judge whether or not it is a reputable service. It appears to have been online since 2020. There was another website with the same name in the UK, but it has been acquired by another company and changed its name. Most of the online reviews, which are not good, are concerning this company, not the Australian one.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”
Cicero
Conclusion
The Gardening Direct website allows you to buy gardening equipment anywhere in Australia. They also sell plants, but they only deliver in the local area since they use couriers. At present, the range of plants is not displayed on their website and the only seeds that are listed are vegetable seeds. Although they have categories for all gardening needs, their range of products is fairly limited as they generally only have one brand of each product for sale. The main function of Gardening Direct is their garden services which includes designing and setting up of gardens as well as garden maintenance. Their gardening team, which is based in Bundoora, Victoria, uses environmentally friendly methods.
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