Great name, but that's about it. I purchased peonies from Kathleen (owner)
for 3 years in a row at the Antique and Garden Fair at the Chicago Botanic Garden. 4 the first year and 2 the second, 2
this last year. Total of 8. The 2 Buckeye Belles I purchased in 2014 were the
most expensive, at $ 34 each.

I
was disappointed when 2 did not survive to 2015. I talked to her about it when
I attended that year’s show, and she said they must be just sleeping, give them
more time. They were DEAD. I bought 2 more as replacements in 2015 (no discount
offered). One of those did not survive to 2016. I am not an inexperienced
gardener: rather, I have gardened for over 35 years. So the deaths are not my
fault. Other peonies from other dealers have done very well.

I
was still waiting for the supposed Buckeye Belle to bloom, however. Last spring
it finally had one flower, blooming AFTER the April 2016 Chicago Garden Fair. It is most definitely NOT Buckeye Belle. It
is some kind of common-as-dirt bomb type in magenta, which I could have bought
anywhere. I am very disappointed, especially considering I
paid a premium price from a specialist grower to have something that should
have been rare and unique. The other "Buckeye Belle" has not bloomed
yet, and has had no buds til this year, so I have no way of telling if
that one too is misidentified.

Based
on the track record of her $$$ peonies being half dead or misidentified, I am
not too confident that it is.

I send many emails without response.

She FINALLY answered me last fall, and
said she would send a replacement this spring. It has not happened! I am on her
automated email list, and last week received one that said spring shipping was
ending and would resume in the fall.

I
will be posting on Yelp, Dave’s Garden, Facebook, and everywhere else I can
think of. I DESERVE a response. If she had been polite and honest, I could have let it go. Instead, she claimed she had already emailed me, and I must not have seen it. I went through all my emails, including my spam folder: so that was just another lie.

DO NOT
patronize this irresponsible vendor who will not stand behind her products! I will not do her the honor of calling her
a grower.

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