Pinckneya bracteata Precocious Sun to Part Sun Paeonia 'Belvidere Princess' has been

Paeonia 'Belvidere Princess' has been one of the top performers in our peony heat tolerance trials since 2004

then you can imagine Hosta 'American Sweetheart'

with 15" tall stalks of attractive blue-lavender flowers

Flower spikes can be 5 to 6' tall depending on the particular Acanthus and are strongly vertical and persist for a couple of months

but the most common is a green leaf with a wide central stripe of silver

Pinckneya bracteata Precocious Sun to Part Sun Paeonia 'Belvidere Princess' has been(aka: Pinckneya pubens) Pinckneya bracteata 'Precocious', a 2020 Plant Delights JLBG introduction is one of those rare woody plants that occasionally creep into our catalog thanks to a special connection. In 2015, Patrick McMillan of the SC Botanical Garden shared some extra seedlings of the Southeast (SC south to Florida) native small tree, Pinckneya bracteata. One of those seedlings began flowering at just over 1' tall, which is highly abnormal.