Sarah Raven Reviews

Name: Sarah Raven
Address: 1 Woodstock court Blenheim Road, Marlborough
Rating: 2.07

2.1 Rating 236 Reviews

23 %

of reviewers recommend Sarah Raven

2.1

Based on 236 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time	Over A Month
On-time Delivery	Greater than 25%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 37%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult

About Sarah Raven:

Sarah Raven

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Phone:

0845 092 0283

Email:

info@sarahraven.com

Location:

1 Woodstock court Blenheim Road
Marlborough
SN8 4AN

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Sarah Raven 1 star review on 28th June 2025

Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I have had literally hundreds of plants over the years from Sarah Raven. Always excellent, always delivered promptly and with excellent Customer Services when I needed them. Fast forward to this year and an unacceptable delay in sending plants out, unable to call as they are only answering a back log of emails and no notice when plants will be delivered (so they are left outside all day in their packaging in this heat) ie no courtesy email, courier information - nothing! I too was told they were in stock, then early May now late May. Awaiting some plants, I ended up going to the Waitrose site, ordered the same item (cosmos) and they were delivered in 3 days! I’ve just seen SR isn’t even sending mine until the end of May!! No more orders again!!”

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Posted 3 months ago

“When ordered was told delivery early May then late May. Tracking says one part has been despatched but nothing every turned up. Message on phone says they have closed the phone lines so they can deal with emails. This used to be my 'go to' website. They let me down last year, so never again.”

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Posted 3 months ago

“Where do I start ? Shocking sums it up . Dead plug plants replaced eventually with more dead plug plants . Broken Dahlia tubers, also totally scrambled /mashed tarragon plants sent poorly packaged . Have unsubscribed to emails and will NEVER order again from Sarah Raven !”

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Posted 3 months ago

“I cannot get to speak to anyone, have emailed them but they say that it will be 5 to 7 days before they respond! I am waiting for 2x plays to arrive, have had no communication with them about the delays, the summer will be over soon and my plans for my garden have gone awry! I will not be using them again!”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Plants don’t arrive when they said they would. No communication from the company. Emails went unanswered and then when I rang I was on hold for 60 minutes. Then told my plants were being dispatched today and would arrive tomorrow. Not sure I believe this and I go away for 2 weeks in 6 days time. Shocking customer service I will never order from them again.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Ordered a tomato plant collection of 5 varieties but it only 3 varieties sent and no explanation or apology for not sending the 2 varieties that I actually wanted. Have sent 2 emails to customer services over the last 2 weeks and no response. Shocking customer service. Won’t be using them again unfortunately.. she needs to concentrate on her company and not being featured in the Country Living magazine”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Ordered 18 plant set. PDP came 2.5.25. Failed to leave with neighbors,as requested. Returned plants to depot. Contacted customer service at Raven. Still waiting for response. DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY it may have been recommended by Monti Don on his gardening program. But it's disgraceful. BE WARNED. Carol”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I have ordered plug plants from this company for several years but this year they were very poor …. very spindly and poor condition. I salvaged what I could but so disappointing as they are not cheap and I’m not sure they will grow.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Reading the recent comments and from my personal experience I just hope this company goes bust because they don’t take their customers seriously. It was very good during many years but ripping off customers seems their new strategy: huge delays in receiving plants which are not what you ordered or dead.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Ordered 6 foxgloves, received 12 thyme plants. Zero response from customer services despite four emails over ten days. Absolutely shocking customer service and our experience seems to have been mirrored by many other recent customers.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Plant arrived completely dead as it had only taken 24hours to arrive it must have been despatched dead. Only greenery are weeds in the pot”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Unreliable and a risk. Seedlings arrived in the most poor quality that I have ever come across. Dead! Replacements are not possible "out of stocK', refunds will not do much now. Season totally ruined.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“When you order with Sarah Raven it is essential that you study their terms and conditions because this is one of those rare companies that puts sticking to its T&C ahead of customer satisfaction. And I mean really study them…. You also need to be aware that on the basis of my and my wife’s seperate experiences, SR do not deign to communicate with customers. If there’s a delay in your order you are expected to find this out yourself. If you think phoning them is an answer be careful: maybe my experience isn’t typical but they tell fibs and then claim they don’t keep records of calls and you should have e-mailed. The odd thing is that they should treat gardeners this way. Gardeners. Let me put it this way: I get consistently better customer service from a giant mail order group with links to a South American river than from this unfriendly group. The plants? Oh, they can be very good, but I’ d rather buy them from nicer people.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Tulips this year a big disappointment. While some performed well at least 50% have either come up blind or not at all.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Be very careful.... i would never buy again. Ordered plants in January and still no delivery. Delivery date keeps moving back. They take your money as soon as you place the order, NOT when they deliver. I have emailed them but NO response. This is a RIP OFF Company.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Purchased barefoot roses and received brittle twigs. All the soaking ,planting with root grow and attention ever going to get the dead material I received growing. Will stick to David Austin and Harkness roses in future that never fail .”

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Posted 5 months ago

“I have used Sarah Raven for several years but the quality has really gone downhill in the last 2 years. So far this year all the plants I have received have been sent loose in the box and are smashed up when they arrive, very disappointing quality.”

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Posted 5 months ago

“Two shocking experiences withSR order Ordered 6 bare root strong Annabelle hydrangeas last fall- NONE HAVE SURVIVED although all others are now in bud Not having learnt ordered bare root hedging which arrived in a sodden broken box So pathetically tiny not worth the effort of planting- have replaced at my local nursery With much stronger cheaper plants _ never AGAIN”

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Posted 6 months ago

“Be very careful . After years of using my bulb order was never completed . No customer service despite emails phonecalls nofollow up . Missed growing as few that arrived were too late . No follow up or apologies. In the end I gave up as nursing my sick husband . Will never order again . A shame grown too big .”

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Posted 6 months ago

“Slow delivery, damaged goods when the order finally arrived. Kept waiting on the phone for 30 minutes on both occasions I tried to make contact. No reply to two emails.”

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Posted 9 months ago

Sarah Raven is rated 2.1 based on 236 reviews