I ordered two 10litre shrubs early this year and waited several weeks for delivery. After some delays following dispatch the plants finally arrived, and were well packaged. A month later one shrub is... See more
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Supplying and planting architectural plants, mature evergreen trees, topiary, instant hedges shrubs and perennials.
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7 Grooms Close. Barleythorpe, LE15 7GJ, Rutland, United Kingdom
- 07500 970 951
- dfg@davidfairleygardens.co.uk
- davidfairleygardens.co.uk
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Really good quality, healthy plant
Really good quality, healthy plant,packaged with care and delivered promptly. Will definitely order plants from David Fairley Gardens Ltd again
First rate service
First rate service - would highly recommend.
From the pre-sales service, to the delivery/installation team, then the product itself and the finally the after sales care advice - I literally couldn't fault any of it. Extremely impressive. Thank you.
Loved my purchase ...arrived promptly…
Loved my purchase ...arrived promptly and healthy! very helpful driver too!
Great stock and knowledgeable staff!
Great service with a pre-delivery call and offer of more advice post delivery.
Great helpful delivery man!
Excellent customer care
Excellent customer care. The plant I ordered had been pruned back so they offered me various options including money back. I chose to take the plant which is just great. Well packed and good condition.
excellent product and excellent service
Rubbish plants, but I did get a refund.
I will start by saying that I eventually got a refund, but it was a real faff to get it.
I ordered a number of plants including some larger hydrangeas. The hydrangeas were in very poor condition when they arrived and I made note on the delivery manifesto, took photos and immediately contacted David Fairley ((by email)). I received no reply so I phoned - I was told I would receive a reply. I didn't receive a reply so I followed this up with another email.
My reply was astonishing. Firstly, I was told that they were 'over' because they had already flowered in Italy. Secondly I was told that DFG sell wholesale standard plants, not garden nursery plants. Can you imagine that kind of BS. Anyway, I explained that I buy thousands of plants a year through our business and that was rubbish.
I eventually got my refund, but what a load of old cobblers in their excuses.

Reply from David Fairley Gardens Ltd
Ordered 2 buddleja plants
Ordered 2 buddleja plants, only 1 delivered. Had to chase up other. For this reason would only give 3 stars. They did apologise for oversight, but felt not enough attention to detail given by them.
Excellent delivery and planting
Excellent delivery and planting. Trees a good size and good value for money.
Excellent service from start to finish
We have just bought 6 trees (3 Photinias and 3 Camellias) from David Fairley Gardens and received an excellent service from start to finish. Got lots of help with selecting the right trees and had an excellent planting service from their team who were both timely, efficient and cleared up all the turf and soil afterwards. Excellent service that we would highly recommend.
Very pleased!!
I was kept in touch with the progress of my order and the delivery status.
very quick and efficient
My order arrived several weeks after…
My order arrived several weeks after the expected delivery time. Moreover, the plants were in a bad shape: a number of twigs were broken and some leaves had died out. Also the packing was not properly marked and the order was delivered to me UPSIDE DOWN! I contacted the supplier about the issues I encountered, but the communication was very bad and there was no resolution proposed. I cannot recommend this supplier.

Reply from David Fairley Gardens Ltd
Great quality trees and delivery was…
Great quality trees and delivery was very well organised
All received and fine thank you
Very poor quality, sickly, expensive bush?
I have to admit that I am a little more than disappointed with the straggly 5 leaved “bush” I paid nearly £40 for. It was spindly and although I had picked the largest size available and it came in a large pot it was not worthy of the price at all. It arrived well packaged though and although took a while to be sent- which was fine, I had no problems having it sent to a different address as it was a present for someone.
But I won’t buy again from them as it’s obvious they had no pride in the standard of livestock they send out. I was embarrassed to see how poor it was when it arrived at their house. I wouldn’t buy again if you can’t get an actual picture of the plant they are sending. It’s a sort of thanks for nothing situation?
Product and shipping was great
Product and shipping was great, but could have been a bit quicker responding to the out of stock issue.
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