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SoCalGardenNut said:I used to have gladiolus, they grow like weed here, same with freesia, I finally removed them and make room for peonies. Same with dahlias, they got so big, they overtook my garden.
I checked my record and I bought 6-7 Bartz Itohs this year for about $10 each. I will plant them as hedge. I won't waste money on expensive ones for hedge. None of my hedging plants have any flowers, just variegated leaves. So if the Itohs don't bloom here, I'm ok with that.

I think you'll find Bartzella to be much tougher than given credit for. It's one of the toughest plants, and not merely peonies, I've seen in my life: seems immune to powdery mildew when everything else is getting hit, can even be mowned to the ground in the Spring and it will come back...
The only complaint I have, and you may want to keep an eye out, is small divisions take an inordinately long time to bloom: at $10/piece it's a steal so I expect your divisions to be on the small side, meaning you'll have to literally wait years for them to bloom. But they will eventually, just be patient.