Hosta Lakeside Meter Maid Medicinal Plants Paeonia 'Sweet Shelly' has excelled

Paeonia 'Sweet Shelly' has excelled in our heat trials here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden

topped with an unfurling radial leaf with up to 12 leaflets

This small hosta hybrid from Japan has long been one of our favorites

starting in mid-May and continuing into summer

The Cypripedium montanum parent passed along both a slight fragrance as well as the multiple flowers per stalk trait

Hosta Lakeside Meter Maid Medicinal Plants Paeonia 'Sweet Shelly' has excelledThis splendid introduction is a sport from the unique Hosta 'Summer Music'. Hosta 'Lakeside Meter Maid' boasts a much darker green leaf border surrounding the large creamy center. This makes a truly stunning, 3' wide clump, topped in summer with spikes of light lavender flowers.