I did e-mail Diana's and thanked them for speedy delivery and informed them that I received 50 seeds instead of 150. Asked for the missing 100. What baffles me - I've ordered from maybe 5 different seed companies over the last couple of years. More often then not, I've been shorted. By a lot as in this case. So I have to conclude either this is common practice, or I'm darned unlucky! It is strange to me - how do they get away with this? It's not like if you order 100 times from various companies and once in a while you get shorted - someone had explained last year how this could happen. ok mistakes happen and in that case I would give the company the benefit of the doubt. But if it happens 75% of the time, from different companies, then - I am forming a very bad impression of seed-sellers in general.

LTGF, I had only one brug out of 5 I put out that bloomed consistently over the summer, and it seems to like heat. Once the cooling began I got buds on 4 plants, one has begun to flower inside (it's just 2' tall in a pot), one spent the night outside last night and I hope it didn't freeze, one is in the garage going in at night and out daytime, another in my bedroom window taking up way too much room in my bedroom. It's been frustrating but now that I've had a first freeze here I need these guys to bloom so I can cut them back and put them in the basement! Each year is different with them, so keep your spirits up and look forward to what they'll do next year. Meanwhile I have other houseplants blooming their hearts out to make up for the brugs!

Well, I used to be considered zone 6, but they changed my zone to 7. I would assume it would be fairly similar to 6b. Even my lates are fading, will be gone in just a day or so. I would think you would have large buds by now. I have had small buds form but never develop on a new plant. Actually, this year I had one I thought for sure would bloom. Had tiny buds form early in the season, nice lush plant that is at least 3 years old now. Not one bud developed into a flower though. Still, even if we were the same zone, that doesn't mean we would have blooms at the same time. Could just be your neighbors have early peonies & yours is a late.

FINALLY after months of asking my PB to please repair the issues of my pool, they're here. Well...one guy is here. My cracking beach entry, my blotchy colored deck, my suck en deck (because of a leak), spa steps no longer attached because of the deck that sunk and big long crack in the deck from the leak. They are out there right now fixing my beach entry. They went and got some flag stone that is the same as what I used for my coping. They are chipping away at the un submerged pebble sheen and will then put the flagstone in to replace it. I will still have my "sandy beach" colored pebble sheen in the beach, just the very top of the entry will be the flagstone. The rest of my pool is Tahoe Blue. They seem to want to blame us for the leak under the deck. They had cemented a pipe in for us, for a shower out by the pool cabana. They said from the stress of screwing in the shower pipe-head in, that it stressed the PVC pipe (3 or so feet from the shower) and it became unglued. Give me a flippin' break! That cemented in pipe has not moved! You would need a sledge hammer to do any damage. The cement around the pipe isn't cracked at all. We didn't even touch that pipe until 4 months after it was put in. They also want to blame the blotchy cement on splashing water on the deck. I know that water discolors cement but, our deck has NEVER been even or the same in color. In fact 1/2 of the deck is white. We chose a dark beige for the color and paid a lot of money for color. I don't know what they can say about the cement being so white. Like regular cement turns when it's dry. I showed them a path from the house to the pool, that a cement guy put in for us. Someone that we used, not our PB. We did not color the path and it's the same color as the white part of our deck. If I knew the name of the cement company I would call them and ask someone to come out and look at it but, I can't get the number from my PB. I've been doing a search on the internet for companies, because I remember what the site looks like but, I haven't found it yet. I've stressed quite a lot about my PB not ever coming back. They stood me up several times, told me they'll be there, blah blah blah but, never showed up to do the work. Promised me it'll be done before my July 4th party and today is the 13th. They said they were coming last Wed. I I called them...no reply, no show. I text messaged and said "are you coming or not?" I finally after a few more days got a text from them saying they'll be here this Saturday, Sun. at the latest. They didn't show up yesterday so I asked about when they thought they would be here so I didn't have to be on hold and stuck here all day....and they said (after I waited all day yesterday) they'll call me later and let me know what time they'll be here sunday. I never heard back from them yesterday so I figured they were going to stand me up again. Of course they called me from my front gate at 11:30am. No warning of we're on our way or we'll be there at a certain time. Never again will I use a pool builder (sorry to the good reliable PBs out there, cuz I know you're out there. I just happened to choose the wrong PB. Sorry if I seem to be only complaining but, this is the only place where some people will understand where I'm coming from. Despite my complaints, I love my pool. I just don't like being strung along by an unreliable builder.