Chiltern Seeds Reviews 146

Bought a huge selection of seeds from Chiltern for the first time this year. Excellent selection of seeds. Well packaged, paper packets and cardboard box (which actually goes through the letter box!). decent number of seeds. All germinated well!! So far tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, melons and peppers all excellent. Have my first truss of gardeners delight tomatoes all ready. Several varieties of Salvias, cosmos and penstemon, again good germination rates. Will be using again!

AMOUNT HAS DECREASED!
Last year I was very happy with my order of seeds this year most of these seeds I’ve ordered have less seeds in the packet — my runner beans especially only 28 seeds.!! I’m having to order some more else elsewhere

Absolutely fantastic, sat and chose seeds with my catalogue, ordered on line. Phoned to check delivery and found staff to be amazingly helpful in getting my seeds to me when I need them. Grew plants from their seeds last year and they had a very good germination rate and turned into healthy plants. Would highly recommend

Your seeds are fantastic; as is your customer service, and delivery, all orders arrive so quickly! It’s early in the season, but seeds are all germinating, offering such huge promise for a great growing season! Last year's germination was absolutely fantastic, and the plants were strong and healthy. Thank you so much for offering such amazing quality seeds and such a wonderful selection of veg and flowers - every year it is such a joy to order seeds from Chiltern Seeds. Thank you!

bought apero tomato seeds with only 6 seeds in the pack the price was not cheap and should have been at the minimum 10 really disappointed took photo with seeds still in pack unopened

I have used Chiltern Seeds for several years; they are a reliable, local company and the seeds themselves are excellent.
The reason for today’s review is to thank them for their help with a delivery problem; excellent customer service.

I’ve ordered seeds from Chiltern Seeds a couple of times now and have always had a good experience. Orders arrive on time with the correct items, the number of seeds tends to be accurate in line with the description, and the selection is really good. They’ve definitely become one of my go-to places for seeds

I'm gonna go ahead and give chilternseeds a 1 star.
I bought a couple of sago palm seeds, but when leaving them to soak for a couple of days, they floated. This means they were either infertile, or immature seeds which aren't worth wasting your time with.
I left a polite review, actually giving 2 stars, as the delivery the seeds were well packaged etc. But as I now see, the website doesn't publish not so great reviews l.
What's the point of reviews if the customers can't make informed decisions on future purchases?
So here it's a one star. I bought the seeds due to a positive review. Not worth wasting your time over.
Untrusted and won't shop there again

Quality. Advice. Service.
The people at Chiltern Seeds set the standard which others can only hope to aspire to.
Thank you

I love 'Chiltern Seeds'. In addition to a wide range of excellent products and an easy to use website, the people who run the company are so lovely. They are extremely helpful and knowledgeable. I am so pleased to have discovered Chiltern Seeds a couple of years ago. A big thank you to the team!
Elizabeth

Great seed company. Quality packaging and service. Very clean well labelled seed. Very prompt international delivery.

I want to start by saying don't be dissuaded by negative reviews - I'm pretty sure they mostly refer to a company using a similar name with a poor reputation. I feel sad for Chiltern Seeds as they deserve an average five star rating!

I bought lots of seeds from Chiltern this year as a new gardener.

I found the website to be excellent. There is a huge variety of unusual and beautiful seeds - the sort of thing you can't get in garden centres, even more specialist ones. This includes uncommon varieties of popular plants like Cosmos - if you're looking for something a bit different that will have everyone asking "WHERE did you get that?!" then this is the place to go!

There are also really useful features on the site including "seeds to sow now", well curated seasonal edits and the ability to filter by a whole range of parameters which was very helpful in finding things that would work for my space and the time available.

I ended up ordering three times from them this season - multiple cosmos, zinnia and phlox varieties, scabiosa, snapdragons, eustoma, Ammi Majus & visagna, papaver, Nigella. Seeds arrived promptly and were beautifully packaged with clear instructions.

I've had success with almost everything aside from the eustoma which is notoriously tricky & did actually sprout but was damaged when my cat decided to take a nap on the seed tray which is hardly Chilterns fault! The phlox took a while and I thought I'd have to give up on it but suddenly, almost every seed germinated and started rapidly growing. The overall germination rate was so high I ended up with a LOT of spare seedlings which made nice gifts for friends and family.

Everything is starting to bloom now and I was delighted to be able to make my first ever mini bouquet last week from plants in my garden. I'm particularly excited about the cosmos - I haven't seen the varieties I bought in any other garden or garden centre and they're breathtakingly beautiful.

Next year, I'm definitely going to stock up on sweetpeas - again, they stock some truly gorgeous varieties - and will be ordering foxglove seeds to overwinter too!

Though I've had no problems I note that Chiltern respond kindly and helpfully to those who have, offering replacements and advice.

I recommend Chiltern to everyone without hesitation. Excellent customer service, the best range I've seen anywhere in the UK and top quality products. I'm already excitedly planning my cutting garden for next year!

Chiltern Seeds are my go-to people for seeds. An excellent range of products, a lot wider than a lot of other companies. The website is good at drawing my attention to plants that I have never heard of or wouldn't normally consider buying and gives expert growing and plant care advice. Good quality seeds, speedy delivery and excellent customer service.

Really impressed with how they handled my complaint. I’d bought Giant Fennel seeds and only 1 germinated - they asked about growing conditions, sent me a replacement pack of seeds and gave me detailed advice on how to germinate them successfully.

I have found that the seeds are not as good as they used to be. Some have very few seeds (e.g. Cosmos Airosanguineus Black Magic - four seeds only!) and the rest have had poor germination rates and even if they germinated the resulting seedlings were weak and many died off. I've not had this happen before. e.g. Lathyrus Beaujolais, L. Prince Edward of York, L Dorothy Eckford, L. Watermelon (my own Lathyrus seed was much more successful), Lupinus Band of Nobles The Pages, Nicotiana Bronze Queen (the Alata Lime Green was OK), Chickpea Principe (half germinated), Cosmos Bipinnatus Purity. With so many seeds failing, I don't think it can be a coincidence and I'm afraid I won't be ordering from Chiltern Seeds again. Such a pity as I would prefer to buy from small independent businesses.

The variety of unusual seeds available, the fast response to my order, the excellent communication, the well produced catalogue but it has got to be the quality of the seeds that takes top spot. I bought Agretti a notoriously difficult seed to germinate. Warned by gardening friends that it was a thankless task and prepare to be disappointed. 80% germination! Yes 80%! They are happily growing robustly as if they were on the slopes of Mt Etna. We are harvesting them for soups, salads and sautees even in North West Lancashire they are so prolific. It has been my star seed this year. Over the moon.

Bought some blauschokker peas and so far not a one has germinated after 2w. However this could be just me but the packets I received don't have a date packaged or picked on them which is strange.

All seeds I bought germinated and now been planted in various places in garden baskets and pots and greenhouse. I bought lisianthus which I understand are hard to grow, they are doing really well and Russian sage which can also be slow but have done really well. Also lobelia, careselio cucumber and gardners delight tomatoes are doing brilliantly. I will from now buy all my seeds from chiltern very pleased with them

Fast delivery, environment friendly packaging. Seeds look good quality. I’m extremely excited about the lottery mixture and what’s going to grow out of them.

Outstanding service and high quality seeds. In the event of a problem outside their control, they can be reached and will rectify the situation promptly.
The rest of the market can learn valuable lessons from Chiltern Seeds.
Thanks to everyone of the Team.