Re: peonies sprayed

**"* B* <l*@msn.com>**

Hi, Jo Ellen!

That's an awful tale!

Fortunately, I can't speak from experience, but she might get on the Cricket Hill website (www.crickethill.com/<http://www.crickethill.com/>)
to get their contact info and consult with them. They are a very small Ct. family-owned Tree Peony business but they also do herbaceous peonies and have vast amounts of horticultural knowledge and experience, not to mention possibly other contacts in the peony business.

Lorraine 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jo ellen meyers sharp<h*@sbcglobal.net> 
  To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum<g*@lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:23 AM
  Subject: [GWL] peonies sprayed

  Dear GWLers -- I just got a call from a friend in the area who has a 
  huge cut flower buisness, including contract work for wholesalers. 
  She lives in a rural setting and last Friday, her farmer/neighbor 
  sprayed two herbicides, including Extreme. The winds that day were 
  30mph or better and more than 12 rows of her prized peonies have 
  taken a hit from the drift of the chemicals.

  She's been in touch with state and federal authorities re: not 
  following label instructions by spraying on a windy day, Purdue and 
  area extension folks. She's also spoken with a couple of other peony 
  growers, including Klehm's, but no one has had their crops (or 
  plants) sprayed w/this stuff.

  I told her I'd ask to see if anyone one of us have had this 
  experience or perhaps some of our readers/listeners, etc., have had 
  this happen.

  She wants to know if a peony recovered and survived to bloom again in 
  a year or two or were the plants goners? She was really upset and I 
  don't blame her. The farmer's reason was that he had a thousand acres 
  to do and the field adjacent to her farm was on the schedule for that 
  day.

  Any other resources you suggest she contact, please let me know that, 
  too. Off-list is fine.

  Thanks.

  jems

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