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On Mar 31, 2007, nativeplantnut Boone, NC (Zone 6a) wrote:
I have ordered sucessfully from Chen Yi for several years now. In Dec. 2006 my order was shipped but never arrived. It was finally tracked to a Washington state location. It was reshipped shortly thereafter only to arrive frozen. After slowly thawing the plants they all turned to mush. I was assured by Chen Yi they would be replaced and would be reshipped after the Christmas and New Years holidays. It has been over three months and after numerous emails and a fax I have had NO response whatsoever from her. Also, this order had been prepaid.
Only few words to prevent people to buy to this nursery : A lot of plants (most of them?) are taken in the nature, in big quantities. List and prices are very attractive but remember that you contribute to destroy nature by buying some plants to Chen Yi. In China more and more species are threatened, it's a shame to encourage illegal collectors.
Moreover, a lot of plants sold by Chen Yi are wrongly named and there is a lot of mistakes.
So don't be responsible for something that you would'nt tolerate in your country.
i did not have much luck with the arisaema fargessi tubers i got form them among other arisaema species. around half of the a. fargessi tubers did not germinate. i planted these at the beginning of last spring. i am still hoping some may come out in the spring of 2006. i ordered another group of plants from them this fall. i was quite specific with my order but still some of the plants that came were not ordered( arisaema clavatum and a. prazeri both of which may not do well in my growing zone, Z5; one lot listed as ten arisaema fargessi was not present and himalayan giant lilies which was supposed to be cardiocrinum giganteum as was in the catalog, came in labeled lilium bakerianum. having not seen either lilies, i do not know what i have gotten. i tried to sort this out with them by email with netzero and yahoo until i had some technical glitches unfortunately. i sent her copies of the original email she sent me alerting me to what she was sending me and the actual list in the package received by air mail after that but she has not responded yet to my repeated emails and my letter so far. i wonder if this is a common experience with the other gardeners. thank you for you responses. h. intengan.
On Sep 15, 2005, denisoliver Essen Germany (Zone 7a) wrote:
Beside all questions about the plants quality, please bear in mind, whenever you order: Chen-Yi is renowned not only for rare plants in good quality, but being a plunderer of nature too (the amount of plants she delivers is much larger than the one she cultivates), who additionally often does not deliver precisely what one has ordered in fact, as many plants are misidentified.
