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WHEN we wrote about how gardening brands had dealt with the vast increase in online orders during lockdown, we asked our readers to get in touch with their experiences.
Many of you did – thank you very much! – and your responses were a mixed bag of positive, negative and downright frustrating.
Former SMP Sir Brian Donohoe ordered some black petunia seeds, costing ?16.96, from online retailers Eckman, only to be sent Petunia ‘Black Velvet’ plants in September when it was far too late to plant them out!
In his email to AG on September 23, Sir Brian said: “I am perplexed that having ordered two packets of ‘Black Velvet’ petunia seeds, I have been sent plants that, as annuals, are useless at this time of year and an affront to any gardener’s intelligence.”
When he contacted the company, he was asked to return the plants
