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Mail Order Bamboo
Jun
23
2021
In case you wanted to order bamboo plants online but didn’t know where to start, here are my experiences with 4 of the places. I’m listing them in chronological order, which for all practical purposes is random.
I was trying to find bamboo online, and I found a lot of bamboo online. But many of the places were either local pickup only with their stock online, or wholesale/commercial only. I did find a few places that would sell and ship to anybody on the internet, so I tried them out.
- Maya Gardens – mayagardensinc.com
This place is everywhere it seems. You can order off their website, or off Ebay or Etsy or Amazon or other places. So this place has by far the easiest ordering ability, along with prompt service.But it is also the most expensive for what you get. Smaller plants, and limited selection, is the tradeoff for ease of ordering, it seems.
- Bamboo Garden Center – www.bamboogardencenter.com
This place also calls itself Bamboo Plantation. I could order online, but it seems all orders go to the Pending status as default. My first order, I waited a couple weeks then I sent an email asking about my order status. They said one item was not in stock, so they’ll cancel that item and ship the rest. I then got an email saying my order was now in the Processed state, and it shipped and arrived soon after. The plants were decent size, so that worked out okay.The next season, I placed another order. I figured these items should be in stock. But the order still went into Pending. And sat for a couple weeks. I asked about a possible ship date, and I did not get a reply this time. But my order did change to Processed a few days later and then it shipped. Decent plants, again. Just not my favorite customer service.
- Bamboo Garden – www.bamboogarden.com
This place was not exactly what I wanted, because I couldn’t place an order on their website. They have all the info – prices, sizes, shipping, etc. – but you have to email or call to order. I decided to try it, so I emailed them my order with my calculated total cost. They emailed back quickly, saying they were out of stock in that size of an item but I could get the next size up if I wanted. Friendly tone to the email, prompt responses, and willing to work with me. Once we settled on what the order should be, they then emailed me an invoice which I could pay online.So while I couldn’t order online all in one shot on their website, I could basically accomplish what I wanted all online. It wasn’t as painful as I thought it was going to be.
The plants arrived and they were good sized. Plus this place has the best packaging, with rails of bamboo to protect/stabilize the contents of the box.
- Tripple Brook Farm – tripplebrookfarm.com/
This place let me order fully online, like I expect to be able to do in the Year of our Lord 2021. I got an email right away saying my order was received, but I never got a shipping notice (nor an actual shipment), so after a couple weeks I emailed them. They replied right away, sounding apologetic, and in a short time I had shipping info and then the plants arrived.I don’t know what happened to my order at first, but they fixed it and were communicative, so it’s okay. The plants were a good size.
I expect that ordering bamboo plants is not a typical activity, so I have no idea how helpful this blog post will be to the general public. But I felt like writing it so this is what you get.
For they will wither quickly like the grass, And decay like the green plants.
Psalm 37:2
