Cypripedium Aki Fragrant Flowers wine-red flowers hanging just below

wine-red flowers hanging just below the leaf

Paeonia 'Cora Stubbs' is a mid-season Japanese-type peony that also boasts a large number of side flower buds for even longer flowering

'Lonesome Dove' matures

it's still one of the best garden selections

Cypripedium Aki Fragrant Flowers wine-red flowers hanging just belowCypripedium 'Aki' is a strain of hybrid ladyslipper orchids developed in 1996 by Germany's Werner Frosch by crossing the Chinese Cypripedium macranthos with the American Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens. The heat tolerance of the Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens allows gardeners in warmer climates to have success. The hybrids, which display amazing vigor, emerge in late spring forming 18" tall stalks topped with large plum to pink striped