Know These 6 Things First Before Buying Plants Online

Shopping plants online was harder even just sometimes back. But with various new online shopping sites for plants the impossible, harder thing to do is very easy to ardent lover of gardening. In just away from fingertip now people get to see varieties of plants which otherwise was not always possible.
You must know what to look for before planting any plants and must consider how to look after the plants as you are going to buy plants online to start or upgrade your garden-

Plants Online
Plants Online
1. Know your site

It’s okay as with time everyone gets experienced about gardening. You will come to know which trees are incompatible in your site. Not everything you can grow in your garden. As the environment will not suit all plants that you would want to grow in your garden. When you choose a particular plant online, you need to know about the harvest and the growth period. Along with that, you can also buy accessories, planting instruments, pots and even seeds online to get the best deals possible. You can mix and match varieties to ensure proper buying.

You should definitely try out various plant combinations and then consider a theme after buying plants online for your garden with the help of Pinterest. Find best plant to match your garden site.

2. Find out the plant's needs

Know everything you need to know about the plant you want in your garden. Don’t go for certain plants as they look beautiful, but do some basic research works before buying any plants. Know a plant’s requirement of soil, water and exposure.

3. See Full Photographs of the Plants

Some years back if you would have wanted to buy plants online, you would have become frustrated as there were no full photos from various angles online of the plant you want to buy, but certain close shot of it. It was difficult to picture the full story. But now you get to see minimum 3-4 photos which give an overall image in your mind about a certain plant. Get the overall picture just before ordering your plant. You will get some ideas about how it will look in your yard.

4. Try out some plant combinations

From the internet you will certainly find some inspiration about the theme of your garden before buying plants online. Make an inspirational board online or offline with different combinations of plants and develop your own theme from that for your garden. For instance, for the winters, you can choose both Dandelion and Pansies with petunia, or else, you can buy different varieties of marigold to decorate your garden.

Plants Online
Plants Online
5. Assess your risk tolerance

Know the environmental zone your plant requires. It might not suit with your zone. In that case are you willing to take the risk and plant that sapling from different zone? There is a huge risk factor when you buy some plants online which isn’t suitable for your climate. If you are okay with the risk, then go on.

6. Experiment

Give yourself permission to experiment with the plants you want to have in your garden.  You also may not like a certain plant which you thought would be awesome to plant. You will certainly get rid of the plant. From trial and error of experiment you will develop your gardening experience.

Many people are generally skeptical about buying plants online, because they prefer to go to local nurseries, where they can complain in case of any problem with the quality of the seeds or the saplings. However, in many reputed online sites, there are instances of easy return policy, and they can return the damaged plants if sent to them.

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