I recently purchased a prebonsai japanese maple from bjorn's online shop.
The tree itself was about $33-35, and I feel happy with what i got for that money. 14-16 inches tall, plenty of branches low and high, 1/4 inch trunk, maybe a bit thicker, in a 1 quart pot
This is a picture of the tree in the box it came in, with all of the shipping materials. There was one strip of tape kind of holding it to a side, and a plastic bag that I assume was to be covering the pot to help retain moisture, and that was it. It was shipped via UPS ground.
The reason im posting this, the point I want to bring up, is that the shipping was ~$14, and that was going to be charged per tree shipped. I've bought trees online in the past, some costing more for shipping, and some less. Nearly all of them better packaging. Using packing peanuts, crumpled newspaper as padding, using tape to actually secure it, taping it to a styrofoam insert thats taped to the bottom, twine going through the box and around the pot and trunk in several locations. As far as I can determine, if I had bought 4 of these maples, I'd have payed almost $60 in shipping, for 4 trees loosely taped in a box.
Overall, happy with the tree, very disappointed with the shipping in both cost and quality.
The tree itself was about $33-35, and I feel happy with what i got for that money. 14-16 inches tall, plenty of branches low and high, 1/4 inch trunk, maybe a bit thicker, in a 1 quart pot
This is a picture of the tree in the box it came in, with all of the shipping materials. There was one strip of tape kind of holding it to a side, and a plastic bag that I assume was to be covering the pot to help retain moisture, and that was it. It was shipped via UPS ground.
The reason im posting this, the point I want to bring up, is that the shipping was ~$14, and that was going to be charged per tree shipped. I've bought trees online in the past, some costing more for shipping, and some less. Nearly all of them better packaging. Using packing peanuts, crumpled newspaper as padding, using tape to actually secure it, taping it to a styrofoam insert thats taped to the bottom, twine going through the box and around the pot and trunk in several locations. As far as I can determine, if I had bought 4 of these maples, I'd have payed almost $60 in shipping, for 4 trees loosely taped in a box.
Overall, happy with the tree, very disappointed with the shipping in both cost and quality.