Comments regarding Arid Lands Greenhouses

Posted on February 28, 2014, updated March 24, 2020
Posted on April 9, 2012, updated February 28, 2014
Posted on May 12, 2010, updated April 9, 2012
plant order arrived promptly, well-packed, and plants small but healthy. will definitely order from Arid Lands again in the future.

I really love buying plants from Arid Lands. I ordered on Monday and received my plants today, Thursday. I ordered mainly Gasteria and was totally surprised by the size of a couple of them. They are probably 5 to 8 inches in diameter, much larger than what I anticipated. Everything was in good shape and their shipping charges are reasonable. I'll order more from them soon.

My first order from this nursery but definitely won't be my last. They list a huge inventory including many harder to find plant species, and shipping was fast and cheap. Plants were surprisingly large for the price and very healthy, great roots in particular. Very glad I stumbled across this place in an internet search.

Ordered a couple of Sansevieria difficult to find elsewhere. Shipping confirmation response time within an hour or so...very fast delivery. Nice large, attractive specimens for the price - a real bargain and pleasant ordering experience.

Ordered several cactus. Plants arrived very healthy and shipping was very fast. I would not hesitate to order from this nursery again.

Excellent mail order source, they know their plants and ship out quickly. The plants are not "show pretty" but the plants will have the potential to grow into what you want and having such an incredibly large selection more than makes up for this. Far as I know, they identify their plants to the best of their experienced knowledge and current known scientific information.

They do not make substitutions and they are not intentionally vague about their plants ID, nor make claims they cannot reasonably support about their plants ID. Aridlands seems to be very respectable, and their business is quite different from the mass market trade.

Since the latest review here is from 2014, I wanted to give a more recent review for fellow plant enthusiasts. I placed an order on Tuesday and they promptly shipped my order the same day. It's amazing how fast they filled it. I am very happy with the plant I received. I ordered a Eulophia and it has several growths and a new growth forming! Can't ask for anything better.

Posted on September 24, 2010, updated May 7, 2014
Absolutely one of the best. Before I ordered, I called to ask a few questions - they took time and cared enough to learn exactly what I was looking for and recommend what would work for me.
Email statuses are a great bonus too.

They gave me a status update, and the plants arrived quickly and carefully packed. Great buying experience, five stars.

Very extensive selection of hard-to-find and unusual plants. Plants ordered received quickly after email notice from company that order had shipped. Well packed. Plants very healthy and nice. Probably the most reasonable shipping costs I've seen in awhile.
I am pleased with the plants, the shipping, and the communication. Well done.

I ordered from Aridlands for the first time and was very impressed with them. They sent out my order the same day I placed it and I received it in 2 days. They plants I received look great and are pest free and healthy. One of my plants was much larger than expected. They offer a nice selection of unusual plants and prices are reasonable. I will definitely order from them again.

Arid Lands has a nice selection of stapeliads. Plants are good-sized, healthy, and arrived carefully packed.

I've made several orders from Arid Lands over the past few years now and I have no complaints. Quite the opposite actually! They have a great selection, the orders come quickly and they are well packed. In my experience they have the best customer service as well. My emails are always answered quickly and honestly. I'll definitely be back for more.

Posted on July 21, 2008, updated July 24, 2011
I have had many orders with them. Plants are great and shipping is fast.

I received my first order last week and am quite pleased. Most of the plants were the size I expected but a couple were much larger. They were carefully packed with a 72 hr heat pack and arrived in excellent condition. I thought the prices were very reasonable for the size plants I ordered.

I recently ordered three Euphorbias and a Pachypodium from Arid Lands. All arrived in great condition. They were pretty small, but fit the description on the website. Once potted, they all showed good growth. I was pleasantly surprised at the size of one of the plants I ordered. It was a lot larger than I expected. Arid Lands has a great selection of succulents and nice photos. Shipping was quick and the plants were packaged well. I highly recommend Arid Lands.

Arid Lands is a great nursery to do business with. I have had 4 or 5 orders from them and been pleased with all of them. I was in the Tucson area this summer and decided to drop in and check them out. Wow! I was like the proverbial kid in a candy store! Rest assured, if you order from them, you will not be disappointed. They may be DG top 5 for succulents, but in my book, they are number 1!!

Totally positive. The plants were welll packed, and packed appropriate for species. I expect 100% satisfaction on this order.

Arid lands ships well grown plants. My order arrived quickly and securely packed - they did a perhaps overly zealous job of communication sending many e-mails updating me on the progress of my order.

My only disappointment is that one plant I ordered was not included in my shipment. I was not charged, and there was a handwritten note on the invoice apologizing that they "could not find" the plant ( a bulb which had gone dormant ). Sadly, the plant remains available on their website.

In the end, however, I was impressed by the quality and size of the plants I did receive and the speed with which I received them.

Arid Lands consistently sells quality plants that you cannot find elsewhere. They have a huge selection. Their succulents and cacti are healthy, they ship quickly, they have a great website. Give them a try!

I've ordered from Arid Lands Greenhouses quite a few times, and I've always gotten healthy well-established plants, carefully packaged and shipped very quickly. Communication is excellent, and the owners are knowledgeable and so nice and helpful! They have a wide selection of succulents with an ever-changing inventory that always includes many hard-to-find gems.
I haven't found any online source of succulents that can even come close to the all-around quality and service they provide at Arid Lands.

Wow! Absolutely the *best* customer service to date from an online seller (and I've used many!) - these folks go the extra mile.
Incredibly fast shipping.
Most importanly - great plants/tubers/bulbs, larger than expected.

This is a great company for hard-to-find African bulb species. Toni is wonderful for customer service and the plants are healthy and ready to grow upon arrival. Although this was my first purchase with Arid Lands; it will definitely not be my last!

Excellent! I've ordered three times in the past year (mostly aloes, but a few others) and all the plants have been of excellent quality and shipped quickly. You can't go wrong ordering from Arid Lands.

This was my first purchase from this company, but it won't be my last. Very fast shipping and good communication. Plants arrived well packaged and healthy.

Excellent - received order within a week - great looking plants and good sized :-)

A perfect online experience. My Pyrenacantha arrived in great shape in less than three days! Very reasonable prices, both for the plant and for shipping. Email order confirmation and updates were sent promptly.

I just got my order today, less than a week after I placed it on their site. I am very pleased with what I got. It is not my first order from Arid Lands, and like usual, the plants look great, ready to be potted up. Their prices are very reasonable, their inventory seems to be increasing over time, and they have many species either not found elsewhere, or if so they will often cost a lot more (and not necessarily for a bigger or better plant) from elsewhere. Plants I've ordered before have done well, and I particularly appreciate that they carry a decent selection of unusual pelargonium species. The number of species of aloe and euphorbia which they offer is simply enormous. Try them, you won't be disappointed.

Customer service is excellent and shipping is very quick. Ordered 4 different types of Sansevieria from them on the phone and added two more they suggested that I did not have for my collection. Plants were smaller than other mail order sources but very much in line for lower prices. They have some of the more unusual varieties available on occasion and I will definetly order from them again.

These folks had adeniums for sale that no one has, and the prices are very, very reasonable. You pay for the size you want (if available), and the top prices are affordable for many. They charged a reasonable shipping fee (note that they ship bare-root, not potted to save you money) and only $2 for a heat pack (I've seen vendors charge up to $7 for these). They told me I'd only need 1 heat pack for my package, and they were right. The plants were shipped quickly and arrived fine.

This is a great company! They have a nice inventory, and you can see actually how many plants they have when you order. Not only that, every plant has a photo to go with it, and a blurb about it. ... Amazing! The plants are relatively huge compared to most other mail order sites, and in excellent condition... no wonder... you usually get the plants just 2-3 days after ordering them (unlike my USUAL experiences with most places taking 2-5 months!). Nothing bad to say about these folks- they have got it together!!!

I order four plants from them and the plants I received were in good shape when they arrived and were actually larger than the ones pictured on their site. Their prices were good and the service excellent. I will use them again soon.

Lonny

This company is back up and operating.They gave me excellent service.They have some unusual plants not generally available elsewhere.I will be ordering from them again.

Excellent experience with them a while back. They're supposed to be re-opening mid-April 2006 - perhaps under new management - hope this doesn't change their wonderful track record because I have my next shopping list ready for them...

They are the absolute best! They get in touch w/you when they get the order and give you an idea of when its going to be sent. But what I like the best is when they make a mistake they will rectify it immediately. Imagine my surprise and dismay when I logged on the site tonight and see that they no longer are in business.

Ginger

I've ordered from Arid Lands 6 times. Always got my plants quickly and they were always of good health and labeled properly. The only problem was they sent me the wrong Aloe once. I emailed them about it, they sent me the correct one and let me keep the wrong one. A nice gesture. I would definately order from them again. Customer service is excellent. Good selection, healthy plants, all around good place to order from.

I placed an order for a couple of rare aloes with Arid Lands. I received an e-mail stating the order was sent and that they included a Euphorbia I had been looking for for a long time and that was rare in cultivation. I received the order very promptly.

First, let me say that someone must have recognized my name when I posted on the Yahoo group 'Euphorbia_etc', because I had made no mention of this plant when I placed my order for the aloes with Arid Lands.

Thank you Arid Lands! That goes above and beyond service. Will most definitely do business with again.

Wow. I'm extremely impressed not only with their excellent customer service (fast email replies), but also the outstanding quality of the plants I ordered. All the plants in my order were carefully packaged, spotless, and appear disease free. They have a great website, and the plants are inexpensive, remarkably so. This company is excellent!

One of my favorite websites to use - very easy and clear.
They are quick to answer questions and give tips for growing - Friendly customer service - and the plants are GREAT.