Top 5 Online Sites to Order Desert

Posted by Robert Dailey Nov 5, 2006

Desert Gardens ran a survey of hundreds of online nurseries and online sites that customers could order plants. The top five,based on our criteria are:

1. High Country Gardens
2. American Meadows
3. Guzman's Greenhouse
4. Wayside Gardens
5. Gurney’s

The survey was conducted using 11 criteria:

• Availability and ease of finding xeric and desert plants on the site
• Site design and layout
• Ease of general site navigation
• Accurate, up-to-date information
• Newsletter
• Practical and informative newsletter info (not sales fluff)
• A large plant selection
• On-line ordering capabilities
• Print catalogue available
• No hassle plant guarantee
• Links to relevant other sites, including non-profits

Each item was rated on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 meaning that the site did not have that item, and 10 meaning the item was exceptional. Sites which were exceptionally helpful and contained a large amount of pertinent information were given an extra five points. Total possible points a site could make were 115.

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Top 5 Sites to Order Desert Plants