Paeonia Julia Rose Botrypus from the lowland subtropics where

from the lowland subtropics where it reaches 7' tall to above the alpine tree line where it never exceeds 2' tall

composed of evergreen heart-shaped leaves with an irregular green border and a green central streak with prominent silver markings between the green

spiny-edged green leaves and topped in spring with 18" tall stalks of cloud-like flower heads

From an evergreen basal rosette of corrugated grey-green leaves arise tall

Baptisia arachnifera is a compact grower for a special spot in the rock garden and is topped with short terminal spikes of yellow flowers

Paeonia Julia Rose Botrypus from the lowland subtropics wherePaeonia 'Julia Rose' is a 1986 Roger Anderson intersectional (herbaceous x tree) peony with large 7 8" wide double rosy red flowers atop a 3' tall x 3' wide specimen. Unlike herbaceous peonies, do not cut intersectional peonies to the ground or you'll remove the flowers for next year.