crocus.co.uk

Over the past few years I've become quite a keen gardener, experimenting with different plants and flowers as well as trying my hand at fruit and vegetable growing. It's been a very rewarding hobby and I always get a real buzz when I get to serve my own tomatoes with a salad for lunch or receive a compliment on my front garden displays. I stumbled upon Crocus.co.uk pretty much by accident, you see I'm a member of Lightspeed Research which is a survey website where you build up points and exchange them for vouchers etc... I'd built up a nice little amount of points and decided to see what rewards were in my points bracket, one of the sites listed was Crocus.co.uk and ...

if you need some flowers to get somewhere on a particular day, steer well clear of this lot. i ordered a bunch of flowers online (on a tuesday), paying a premium to have them delivered the following saturday (the day before mother's day). however when my order confirmation email arrived it read: your order was received on 16 mar 2004 12:59:53 and consists of : 1 pisces bouquet at £29.95 each = £29.95 total your credit card has now been debited and your order will be delivered on tuesday 16th march to... now clearly there is no point whatsoever delivering my mum's flowers 5 days before mothers day... so i ...

My first experience of Crocus came when my father requested a Japanese Maple for Christmas 2001. Not being one to trudge round garden centres or lug a tree around in my car, I did an online search for garden centres, and lo and behold, up popped Crocus. The celeb gardener Alan Titchmarsh has a hand in this site, which gives it a certain amount of credibility, and the layout is very simple. You can search by the plant’s Latin name (for serious buffs) or by its common name (for plebs like me), and search results include a picture of the plant, best growing conditions (soil type, light conditions, planting seasons). Details on availability (to save the hassle ...