Comments regarding Rockwood Gardens

Quality so poor that one should save their money and buy a trash can instead for the junk mail they send. They are always sending you an envelope saying "You are the chosen one, and guaranteed to win a prize." Well forget it, I tried out of determination to see if I could stick and win the big one. After a fortune in stamps I won the first round prize(a package of alyssum seeds. After shear and utter determination and stupidity, not to mention a big expense with more stamps, I won theguaranteed $400 prize. To get it I had to spend it all for items from their catalog. My trash bucket just isn't big enough.I can't even come close to recommending this company. It is one of junk mail and poor quality. Their contests are a farce, if you win the first round prize it is a packet of seeds. I got to the $400 winners circle but I would have to spend the all money on more of their poor quality plants. To sum up the way I feel about this company is trash like their product.

I have ordered many times from this company and up until this year I have been very disappointed, except for their lily bulbs everything arrived as dry sticks. I must say this year I ordered more lily bulbs and just for fun some Pampas grass. The Pampas grass arrived in little pots, (surprise!) and was actually a bit damp. I have just planted everything and the p-grass is doing fine. I have nothing good to say about their sweepstakes; however and the free gifts?? Although they say they have winners certainly it's never been me or anyone from my area as far as I can tell. The free gifts are seeds, tiny bulbs, and although I have planted these bulbs I have yet to see one bloom. Time will tell again this year. This is May/96 and I will get back to you later on in the summer to let you know my luck with my latest purchases.

I've been doing business with them for the past 3 or 4 years. Sometimes, I would get so upset with their products and services, I could strangle them! The smallness of the bulbs, the cheap "gifts", the junk mail, the sweepstakes, the dead plants, the tiny survival rate... While reading the information on Michigan Bulb I thought it was all about Rockwood Gardens! I'm not sure, but I think they are revising their shipping methods, because the last material I received was in better shape, ALIVE, bigger plants! Right now I'm testing them about their famous sweepstakes: I'm keeping copies of everything they send me and I'm just waiting for their "final" invoice. I wish I can get back at them just for their 15 mailings of "Rush mail" "Finalist Documents" and the like. I should have listened to what my mother told me: you always your money's worth!