Shopping Guide: The Diggers Club Garden Shop - Adelaide
Diggers Club: Your Shopping Guide
Why You Should Visit
If you're an avid gardener or seeking a unique gift, The Diggers Club presents compelling reasons to visit:
- Wide Variety of Products: You'll find an extensive selection of heirloom seeds, plants, books, and gardening tools. The location also offers a range of garden accessories.
- Unique Seed Varieties: Shoppers can expect to find many unique seed varieties, including specific tomatoes not commonly available elsewhere.
- Helpful and Knowledgeable Staff: Staff members are often described as friendly, approachable, and eager to help, particularly with advice. They seem to be passionate about gardening. The staff is also described as nice.
- Ideal for Gift Shopping: The shop is suggested as a great place for finding unique and lovely gifts related to gardening, garden, or wildlife.
- Membership Perks: Consider joining the club to receive a membership discount.
- Convenient Location (Botanical Garden): It's a great location if you're visiting the botanic gardens.
- Plants & Garden Needs: You'll find healthy plants, a variety of garden-related items, and helpful advice.
Why You Might Consider Alternatives
While the shop offers many benefits, be aware of potential issues before visiting:
- Order Processing Delays: Be aware that order processing can be slow, potentially taking up to 14 days to fulfill a simple order.
- Shipping Problems: You might experience issues with address updates, potentially leading to delivery failures. One shopper had ongoing magazine delivery problems.
- Quality Control Concerns: There are reports of plants arriving in poor condition, such as being dying, suffering from rot or fungal issues. This occurred with online orders.
- Customer Service Issues: Some shoppers have experienced slow or non-existent responses to customer service inquiries, even with urgent matters like double charges.
- Potential for Shipping Damage: Some plants, like the blackberries, have been received in poor condition, seemingly due to being left in their box (in the dark) for extended periods.
- Incorrect Orders: There's a case of receiving the wrong plant (blackberry instead of the ordered raspberry).
- Online Order Issues: One customer experienced an error on the website, resulting in being charged twice for the same order.
