Three African Violet Plants- Assorted Colors by JMBAMBOO

Bambook always uses a heat pak when shipping a plant, it makes such a difference. I bought African Violets this time. He has a lot of really cool varieties. There were some leaves off these plants. We had a Terrible Ice and snow storm of 8 inches one day and eight the next. It was all I could do to try to keep things clean. I fell about 4 times in my driveway it was so bad. I parked the car right up to the steps, but just before a delivery there was more snow. I didn't catch that one and the UPS guy that I know well tried to deliver fast and efficiently and because he didn't realize they were plants, they ended up on their sides, thus the leave breakage. I will simply trim it down before putting it into a pot. i'm trying to give it a break at this moment. The buds will be blooming, so I can't wait to see the official color to match a pot. I really love the plants he has because they re always so healthy. I highly Recommend Bamboo.

I'll start with the plant packaging. They really know how to pack plants for shipping. Double wrapped including a plastic bag to ensure no soil fell out. They arrived in perfect condition and were flowering and had more buds on the way. All of the plants looked very healthy. My only concern is that one of the three plants was noticeably smaller than the other two, like it was younger. They are still budding and blooming. If I decide to buy more, I'll get them from here.

My African Violets arrived carefully packaged and very healthy. I held off writing a review for a while so I could see how they would do. I'm glad to report that they have flourished since I received them! Not only has each plant produced multiple rounds of flowers, but they've grown as well. They are absolutely beautiful! I highly recommend purchasing these plants! You'll be happy you did!

I used to grow hundreds of African violets in a large stand with lights and trays to hold the plants on a grid with wicks down into water. Now I have a lovely east window, and I wanted to grow violets again, this time in natural light. I was impressed with the way the plants were packed. They were in a sleeve with the leaves almost upright. After a few days of sitting out, the leaves went back into place, and the plants looked beautiful. They aren't quite like the plants I grew for competition in the past, as the leaves don't lie flat and even around the center. However, they look lovely in my window and bring beauty and cheer to the room.

My violet order took 5 days to get here via USPS in August - so they were in a hot, dark, box for 5 days. They were very wet and some leaves were damaged. One had a single flower and one showed flower stalks growing. Two months later the two are as seen in the photo. I know a lot more about African violets now than I did when I ordered these and can say that these two are not your standard big box store violets. The third plant was the last to flower and has a small dark red flower - nothing to write home about and I will pass it on to someone else. I love these but decided it is best to order from a hybridized on the east coast where I live - and I can pick specific named plants from their websites and they get here quicker. I don’t have much room to grow them and so have become very particular about what I buy since this order. This vendor is a good way for you to get started however.

JMBAMBOO is an excellent company to purchase African violets from. I have purchased from them several times over the years. All of my plants arrived extremely well packed and in fantastic condition. I highly recommend this company.

I love my new plants! Two of the three plants arrived in good condition and are doing very well indeed. However, the third was damaged beyond what love and care I could give and it died. All three were jammed into a box too small for them and wrapped up causing major damage and creases to the leaves. The tow surviving ones are doing well at present.

I've never ordered indoor plants through the mail before. But I got kinda desperate as African violets don't seem to be sold at the big box stores all that much these days. So when I found these online I thought it was a reasonable price given that shipping was included. They work out to be about $10 per plant. But in stores they're around $7 after taxes. So tacking on another $3 for shipping and what I would call exceptionally packaged plants all make for what I would consider a great value. As you can see, the three new additions I received look very healthy and I can already tell what colors the flowers are are. In addition to arriving safe and sound they arrived super early! They weren't supposed to arrive until Jan 3rd-5th. But they arrived on December 30th after ordering them on December 28th. In fact, I didn't even realize they arrived because my roommate brought the box in from the porch and didn't inform me I had a package. I didn't discover the new unopened package inside the house until Saturday morning December 31st. These look like a slightly bigger variety than I'm normally used to. I hope they fit my plant shelf and don't get much bigger. Otherwise I'll have to find another spot for them. Con: Not really a con but if you read the product description you'll notice that the seller chooses the color/variety for you. Since I love collecting all different colors I'm just a tad apprehensive about ordering more. You can see them on my African violet shelf I just constructed recently. All my other African violets are not in bloom because I didn't have them under grow lights for over a year until after making the shelf with the grow lights under each platform. So the only ones in bloom you can see are the ones I received from my amazon order. Just a note to the seller. If there was any way to specify color when ordering I would buy one of each in a heart beat. But still, I'm VERY pleased.