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Wisconsin
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a 4" potted hydrangea plant. I received a lifeless bulb. I reached out to customer service and they told me it was my job to bring it back to life, as shipping causes strain on horticulture.

Mind you I paid $10 more than my beautiful plants I received from Brecks! They will not refund you your money. Do NOT EVER SHOP Michigan Bulb! They're ripoff's.

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Date of experience: April 3, 2023
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ordered 3 Elephant ears bulbs, planted when suggested, 1 out of 3 bloomed, the other two are dead. Not quality at all. Never Never again will I ever order from this place. I would inform Michigan Bulbs, but they would just give me store credit, not interested in any of their products ever again

Date of experience: April 21,2023

Date of experience: July 7, 2023
Michigan
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Cost vs. Product
May 1, 2023

Today a received the tri colored butterfly bush I ordered. $30 including shipping. 4 in pot, a disaster of a plant. Never again! Leaves brown and broken, soil dry to the point it is dust, almost completely fallen out of the pot into the bag it was in.

Date of experience: May 1, 2023
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Plant orders
June 1, 2022

This business is terrible do not order plants from them. I ordered flowers on March 23 and it is now June 1st and still have not received all my plants. Some of the others I have received were dead or almost dead. I will tell everyone not to use this business such a rip off

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Shady Practices
October 13, 2022

I will NEVER buy from Michigan Bulb again. I ordered on July 10,2022. They took the money on July 11 with a promise of shipment on September 8,2022. I called their customer service on September 26 and the shipment hadn't been sent. No notification from them; even though they had a shipping address they explained that they had no way to notify me. Since reluctantly giving them my email, they have flooded my inbox. My order arrived on October 11,2022.

Date of experience: October 13, 2022
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Absolutely Awful
June 1, 2022

I ordered a number of items from Michigan Bulb this year (the very beginning of April). Two items ended up backordered, and would have arrived so late they would have been pointless, but no one reached out to me to inform me. In the first shipment, half the plants arrived dead (and JUST past the season they would have bloomed). In the second order, which *finally* arrived the beginning of June, yes, a full two months later, one bag was completely empty except for dirt! I checked it three times over to make sure I wasn't missing a teeny, tiny plant and... nothing. I would never use them again. Check Fast Growing Trees or Spring Hill Nursery instead.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
Mississippi
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fool me once...
July 22, 2022

Order #*******200

I got the Buterfly Bush I ordered. It arrived with the leaves falling off. When I called, I was told to wait 4 weeks and if it was still I was told the item was out of stock, that I would get a store credit. I asked about refund. No refund... store credit. I will not purchase from y'all again. It irks me to be required to look at your catalogue so I can get my money's worth.

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Very disappointing for products and service
September 26, 2022

I received 3 eye candy hibiscuses with beautiful pictures listed on the website. I order this plant because I purchased 12pcs in a local nursery 2 years ago and all live and make my yard beautiful. When I purchased from Michigan bulb this time because my local nursery is out of stock, what I received are 3 dried branches, 2 look dead, 1 still has a couple of leaves. When I contact their customer service and sent pictures to them, they told me they only credit me 1 which looks dead, the other 2 still look green. The credit they refund is to buy from their store, not fully refunded. The out of stock item refund I still haven't received the money as I was told they refund me to my credit card. The two Lilacs I ordered are in two tiny 2" pots not like any type of trees. The customer service lady is very impatient and told me not to worry about my money.

Date of experience: September 26, 2022
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My son was thoughtful enough to order me a selection of bulbs. Different colors nice selection. Well when I got them I planted them right away. Half grew and bloomed every one of them yellow! My son sent me the pix of what he ordered and these evidently were a bulk purchase all the same color! Even spoke to Michigan Bulb as well as he did. So they sent another order supposedly to solve the problem. NOPE! ALL YELLOW AGAIN! What did you buy a boat load of that color at a discount? Why can't you be counted to send what was ordered? NEVER AGAIN! RIP OFF!

Date of experience: July 11, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Happy MB customer
October 26, 2023

I bought a lot of plants from MB. My whole garden is basically from MB and their sibling
Company SpringHills.

They had excellent offer on bareroot roses.
I bought about 30 bare root roses from them and 5 own root roses. Quality was
Very good.

Their bulbs (daffodils, dutch irises) are good quality as well.

I was refunded, for everything, what didn't grow, without any problems.

As I live in Los Angeles, they offered very unique lilac, which blooms
In my zone and has a "real" lilac scent.

Btw, I received "starter" plants, lilacs were about 4 inch tall, roses were bare root,
Own root roses were about 6 inch tall. Roses now are beyond 5 foot tall, lilacs are
About 2.5 tall. One of the peonies even bloomed (in LA!). So, don't be discouraged to receive
Little plant, it will eventually grow.

I can only recommend this company.

Thank you

Date of experience: October 25, 2023
North Carolina
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Horrible experience. I ordered 5 bushes and 5 ferns in March - over $100. I live in the South so planting in the spring or early fall is a must and I would expect a horticultural company to know what time of year facilitates planting and would ship accordingly. Well, not these guys. The plants finally arrived on June 23. It is the middle of summer in the South with average temperatures in the high 90s and no one plants this time of year - because unless establlshed, plants won't live through the summer. The plants are worthless and will only fry. Have tried to get a refund only to have customer service argue with me. They had two good customer service options: (1) they could have messaged me and said shipping was delayed and do I still want the plants, or (2) they could have delayed shipping until the next planting window this fall. They did neither. I'll never order from this company again and recommend that others avoid it as well.

Date of experience: June 24, 2022
New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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4 MONTHS is now the estimated delivery
May 11, 2022

If I could give a ZERO, I would have. Ordered $97 dollars of raspberry bushes. ALL IN STOCK when I ordered in Feb 2022. Now the estimated delivery is JUNE. I tried the chat on there website only to be told NO ONE was available. I explained that I wasn't happy with the delay. I got an e-mail back telling me exactly what I saw on the web site for deliver from
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Customer Service
I called customer service and talked with Glen, He told me he'd put a "rush" on the order. I felt like it was a trained response tactic to get me off the phone. So I ask. His response was all the phone conversations are recorded. I then asked will it change anything. He told me he did what he could do. So now HALF the growing season is over before the bushes are estimated to arrive. Won't buy ever again, Hope this helps Dave from Rochester NY

Date of experience: May 11, 2022
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't order from them!
June 7, 2022

Would give 0 if allows to. I ordered $200 worth of bulbs and plants and after 2 months of waiting for them to ship I called and asked where my order was as every time I looked at my order the ship dates got pushed back farther and farther. I was told that orders are shipped according to the DNR prescribed time for growing! I told them I live in northern Illinois and by mid Jul (when my order would be shipped to Me), my growing season is half over. So I canceled my order. Waste of time, money and effort. Went to the store and got the same items and had them the same day. If you like the runaround order from them if not go to the store or purchase from a better company.

Date of experience: June 7, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Two month delay in shipping
April 19, 2022

Although I have had tubers not grow after receiving them from Michigan Bulb, they did take them back and refund my money. My problem is that for spring plantings they have a two-month backlog on three of my items, and no indication of when it will be shipped. A 2-3 week delay was indicated when I ordered, but there is no estimate even now as to when they will deliver the items. No updates have been sent since the first ones. For delicate, time-sensitive plantings, this is unacceptable.

Date of experience: April 19, 2022
Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I ordered 150 bulbs - iris and grape hyacinth. The price was reasonable and they were shipped promptly. Five of them came up. I contacted customer service by phone (bad connection with India) and a very helpful "agent" issued a merchandise credit. I used it for a flower pot. Customer service good, merchandise lousy.

Date of experience: April 16, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was going to order a hybrid begonia from them but they don't even sell the most flowers in the US. So nope I'll order frome home Depot or some other place ridiculous you don't even sell seeds of the one. Morning glories what a joke! I can't add a photo because I didn't purchase from you. Thank goodness

Date of experience: April 9, 2022
North Carolina
16 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Don't buy live plants
March 30, 2022

I received my plants on the 8th day after shipping. Some was certainly dead, some showed life. The live plants suppose to come within 3, max. 4 days. The worst part with this company that you don't get back any money. I will never buy from them again and will not recommend. I don't know why they are Michigan, if they based in IN.

Date of experience: March 30, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Poor Service
May 17, 2021

Received an email for Free Shipping (without a code or minimum $ order). Ordered items and was charged over $10 for shipping and handling. Contacted customer service twice. No response. Still have half an order pending for Fall items and not sure they will even arrive.

Date of experience: May 17, 2021
Louisiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered and paid for two red passion vines. I was given a future shipping date. I waited for at least two months. Now I recieved a letter stating my order was cancelled. I am very disappointed, and will not be ordering again. I will get my money back. Now I have to find them else where. After two months of waiting. Very discouraging. Martha Norris.

Date of experience: April 10, 2019
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Don't buy here
March 29, 2022

I came across this company on the internet. Prices were reasonable, pictures were deceiving, showing beautiful flowers. I ordered 3 garden kits at over $150 worth of plants. I received an email that they were shipped. I waited a few weeks and nothing. When I contacted the company they couldn't find my order. I had to supply the order number and dates. They shipped " new " plants, not the ones I ordered. They came ragged, moldy, I planted them anyway with a hope and a prayer. Less then 5% of the plants showed signs of growing.

Date of experience: March 29, 2022

Overview

MichiganBulb has a rating of 2.3 stars from 36 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with MichiganBulb most frequently mention customer service and credit card. MichiganBulb ranks 13th among Plants sites.

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returns
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