Sempervivum Beta Chocolate Garden Cora Stubbs peony makes a

Cora Stubbs peony makes a 32" tall

brilliant red flowers

dark olive-green leaves that are much darker and narrower

Dick and Rene subsequently named the iris after NC's Vein Mountain

yellow-flowered form of the Asian spring ephemeral Adonis amurensis

Sempervivum Beta Chocolate Garden Cora Stubbs peony makes aSempervivum 'Beta' from the late renowned German plant breeder Georg Arends (1863 1952), has been a star in our rock garden, forming a 2' wide patch in 3 years. It's amazing vigor and tolerance of our humid heat and summer rains has been nothing short of phenomenal. Each 2. 5" wide x 2" tall rosette is carmine red with each leaf ending in a contrasting olive band.