Comments regarding American Meadows

I ordered lily bulbs from American Meadows. They have some hard to find bulbs, like the golden rayed lily of Japan and your must-haves like stargazer and casablanca. The bulbs arrived in beautiful shape a week after I ordered them. It was so wonderful to get good quality bulbs at comparable prices in such a short time! I will definately order from them again!

I've ordered twice from this company and they are quick to fill orders and their seed/bulbs have been great. I would recommend this company to anyone wanting wildflower seeds, especially. The other stuff they sell is just an added plus.

I have bought seeds from this company over the past several years and I am totally satisfied with them! Compared to other seed merchants I dealt with, their seed prices are extremely low, and their seeds come up! Fast delivery and great bang for the buck! One of my favorite online companies!

Ordered a packet of midwest mix wildflower seeds from this company. Service was fine, got the product no problems. Haven't planted it yet but so far no complaints.

Recently ordered wildflower seed and bulbs from American Meadows. Recieved my order within about a week. The company immediately answered my e-mail requesting shipment ASAP and mailed my order the same day. Great customer service.

I've been ordering wildflower seeds (mixed and individual by packet and by the pound) from this company for years, always with excellent results.

This week I received an order of lily and calla lily bulbs from an order placed in Jan (sale). All arrived in excellent condition. One of the calla lily bulbs had atleast 4 prominent "eyes"; 2 "single bulb" packages contained multiple bulbs.

I ordered a large amount of seeds last year and planted a wildflower garden. I was very impressed with the quality of the seeds and the prices were better than any local ones. The company gave some free seed packages too which I thought was nice. Beautiful flowers all summer long with no maintenance once they were planted. I bought the video that was very helpful in how to plant the garden.

I have ordered both seed and bulbs through their website. My wildflowers were the talk of the neighborhood last summer. The spring bulbs I ordered last fall have all come up and are beautiful. Their customer service is also very prompt. When I had a question about one of the bulbs they responded within four hours.

I am so excited! I found the American Meadows website via the ratings of the Garden Watchdog, and their unique mixture of seeds and reasonable prices inspired me to keep adding to my order! I just got the order in today and not ONLY were the packages of seeds I ordered much larger than I expected, I got several (like, about six?) extra packages at no cost. Plus, the shipping from ordering five packages was really about the cost of their actual First class postage and the packaging materials. (This probably would not even out with lesser orders, but I suggest if you go to the trouble of ordering seeds, order at least more than three in order to get the discounts.)
Of course, we'll see later how they actually grow, but just judging by their swift delivery and reasonable prices, not to mention (again) all the free seeds, I expect them to do well!
Highly recommend this company!

BinnieBee

Bought seed (several pounds) approximately 5 years ago. Our wildflower patch has returned wonderfully, each year, despite varying weather conditions (S.E. Connecticut). Very few visitors to our home don't comment on the wildflowers during their season (May - September).

We bought the seed at their Vermont store. The staff was very helpful and knowledgeable.

Seeds came quickly. Well packaged and they sent a few free seed packets too. Seems to be a great company to do business with.

Have dealt with these people through two separate transactions and they've gone out of their way to provide excellent product, service, and even provided some additional items I asked for at no additional cost in a very expeditious manner.

I did business with the original Vermont Wildflower Farm and was very pleased with the service and the seeds.I also purchased a video about wildflower meadows and it was very informative.

Having originally started wild-flowers.com in the 1990s it is great to see such a great friendly site for wildflower lovers. I can only say that the help provided by Rob, their horticulturalist, made my Christmas shopping a true joy. Just the right seeds were selected for friends from Florida to Washington and their delivery and service are unmatched in the seed business.

If you love wildflowers then you MUST visit American Meadows web site.

I bought several years ago, planted at my parent's place. I was so very pleased. They had flowers coming up in that bed for years, and a changing group - the annuals gradually were taken over by the perennials. It was very nice. And one year, during a drought, my parents still had cosmos so tall they were at the bedroom window!

I grew their "Proven Partial Shade Mixture" this year and it is absolutely wonderfully gorgeous, beyond belief, the first wildflower mixture that's ever worked for me, non-stop display of airy many-colored beauties growing in the most awful curb-corner soil imaginable. People stop their cars all the time. Fantastic.

About Vermont Wildflower Farm -- I was disturbed to see how many of their "wildflower" seeds are actually alien plants. Some of these are considered invasive weeds in wild areas, where they displace native wildflowers. Of the twelve annuals and perennials listed in my invasive plants book, this company sells five of them! (For reference, the book is "Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden", put out by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The five plants are cornflower, birdsfoot trefoil, crown vetch, foxglove, and dame's rocket.) It's not that I think people should never grow cornflower, etc, in their gardens. I just object to a company encouraging people to spread around invasive alien plants in large numbers. It suggests that this company either doesn't know much about wildflowers, or doesn't care.

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Vermont Wildflower Farm is no longer owned by American Meadows. This is a very old posting, and I have searched high and low for this customer, but she must no longer use this email. I'd like her to know that our current website lists the native area of every seed we sell, and we now have All-Native Wildflower Mixtures for each region in North America. She needs to know that a species that may be considered invasive in one region, may not be a problem in another. Our site now has extensive original information on how plants are regulated in the US, which are invasive, endangered, etc. --Ray Allen, Owner, AmericanMeadows.com"

We visited VT last October and, of course, had to stop at the VWF even though there wasn't anything in bloom at the time since it was late in the season. However, I did buy seeds to plant here in NJ. Not having a "green thumb", I was a bit apprehensive as to whether anything would bloom, but lo and behold, everything is growing and blooming way beyond my expectations!

They have an excellent video on how to plant a wildflower meadow.

I bought a substantial quantity of wildflower seeds last year, and despite the devstating drought that we had here in Rhode Island, they did remarkably well. What they do NOT tell you, however, in the catalogue, and that you find only in the fine print of their planting instructions, is that you will get a much better and more vivid display if you plant the seeds much more thickly than they tell you in either the catalogue or in the video. From personal experience, I know the fine print to be right. Moral of the story? Buy the seeds from VWF but plant them much more thickly than they suggest at the "entry level".

[update 9/1996] The perennial wildflowers came back gangbusters!

[update 7/1999] It is now the late summer of '99, and all I can say is, "WOW!!!!" The perennial wildflower seeds that I planted 4 years ago have not onlyproduced established and resilient plants, they have produced plants that have spread, re-seeded themselves, and volunteered, thereby increasing substantially the size of Mr. Fowler's Field, as Mrs. Keppel-Potter and I call that section of the gardens. In addition, the annual wildflower seeds from Vermont Wildflower Farm that I planted in '95 and '96, but no new annual seeds have been added since 1997, continue to self-seed to a satisfying degree; the return of the Cosmos always bring delight. The compliments from all and sundry continue to grow. Thanks Vermont Wildflower Farm!