How do you display your huecheras?

I never look at the blooms for tiarellas or heucheras when I pick them LOL. They're all about foliage to me. The only blooms I like are on one which has tall bright scarlet flower spikes. LUV IT! I'll have to look it up in my book cuz I thought it was called 'Winter Red' but PF has that one with pink flowers.

Huh. That is interesting. I hadn't even thought about purchasing seeds. Good idea.

Me too, although I do love the plumes on Autumn Bride & Brownies and Mocha.

I love the blossoms, but that's probably because I don't usually get them (I have rabbits and deer in the front, unfenced yard who love to eat them). LOL

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ooooo Autumn Bride. Must have. How bout this stormyla? You talk and I'll make a big shopping list ^_^

Too funny, Dahlianut.

I do that a lot on the different forums . . .

Gosh, Dahlianut, I don't even know how many I have. Certainly almost all of the current ones. Also, I never buy less than 3 of anything. I've been collecting the older ones on Ebay. I love to get ones from people's gardens. A lot of the ones I'm using for the swap came from Ebay gardens. One lady sent me, what was supposed to be 10 divisions. I divided them down into 18, kept 8 & am giving the rest away. Have you had your Heuch today??????

Boris and Natasha, the neighbourhood jackrabbits, are thankfully pretty polite.

Somehow, I never felt the same about Rocky after taking up gardening.

Damien the Spawn of Satan Tree Rat is my mortal enemy. I gave the jack rabbits those names in hopes that they would turn on Damien. No luck though.

For the most part they don't bother ny Heuchs, but love to tear my Hosta to pieces.

Wow thanks for all the posts very pretty everyone. I may have to get a plum pudding! Nice. Ronna

They're easy to grow from seeds? If so, that's great news. I have 3 and they're really looking good this year (3 years old). They do well here in our hot, humid Summers if I keep them moist.

I did get germination from some "Fire Fly" ?? seeds i got. I will be interested on how well it does this year.
Guess i need to bring it up north and find a good spot for it.

I have not had a chance yet to plant shop up here yet..... it's been raining off and on since Monday night [yesterday was non stop] ..... it is supposed to be warm and sunny today, but i wont believe it til i see it.

May swing by Home Depot today just to see what they have.

I am glad to have stumbled on this thread - need to rearrange Heucheras too.

If I may, I'd like to offer an idea. It seems that most of the pictures posted use color construst. The plants you have, tcs1366, have an interesting option for color echo. You have a terrific back row of ligularias going! And Palace purple or Plum Pudding would pick up the color of their stems really well. Size-wise it also would work well planted before the ligularias.

I am borrowing your "East bed" idea of cornering Peppermint Spice by a spurge and hen-and-checks these three work wonderful together, to my taste.

I don't have to many and I need to make some pics to share of the ones I do have.
? Is KEY LIME PIE just a smaller plant than LIME RICKEY. I have had it for 3 yrs and divided it twice but the height seems short.

BGmom, I've had trouble with both Key Lime Pie and Lime Rickey :( The only real difference I've found in the two is a little different leaf shape - KLP a little more pointed, LR more rounded. They both seem to be shorter than most but maybe that's because they both suffer in my gardens!

L. Rickey is new for me, but I have had the other one quite some time.
I have others that just seem to florish in the same area. Odd.

Enya, What is color construst? I've never heard that word before.

Bluegrassmom, I'm not very impressed with either of those limes. I find Citronelle and Pistache to be much hardier, but the Pistache are getting colossal.

I find this Harvest Lemon Chiffon to be a very vigorous sort of Lime Green. They start out a bit yellower in the spring and then turn this color in the summer and retain it through the fall.

This was it's color in mid April. Very vigorous plants.

If I could spell, "color construst" would be "color constrast" :)
I am entertaining an idea to move mine so that the color would gradually change from dark
(purple) to light (lime). With the ligher colored ones planted farther away.
Currently, I am in the dream mode - my back went out, and without it not much digging can be done.

Here's one of my haphazard plantings with heuchera kind of lost. The plant hights are out of order too,
so most of the plants are lost :(

Hi - Here's a Sum and Substance surrounded by Palace Purple. Absolutely gorgeous when the light is behind them, but the pictures never come out like I see it -- you know what I mean? Anyway, here's one from the top --

And here I tried to get that light shimmering through both the lime and deep purple/red --Dax

Very nice dax080. You have a lovely place I wish I could be sitting in your anorondac chairs with a nice cold drink of something and enjoying the day. I love to sit in the sun and relax. Love your painted fern enya.... Believe me I have many not to good of blending plant places... Will get better I hope. Ronna Thanks for posting great to see the photos. As you can see I have a jungle going on here! I need to thin out and move around.

All of your gardens are lovely! Gardenlady, what is the ground cover that you have growing among your shade perennials?

The lighter one looks like lamium . . .

Yes you are correct....I think I have pink and white ones. Fluffy. Ronna

What's the one in front Ronna?

Katie one what??? The heurchera? That is southern comfort.

Another groundcover is white sweet woodruff.. That I have in there.

Is that the one between the lamium and the Southern Comfort? I do love it, too, though many people around here have trouble with it spreading too far too fast.

Well, I brought home another one to plant with the Limes. The name is Brownie. Anyone growing it ?

bluegrassmom, Give it plenty of room. It will grow to 3' wide.

Yes, there is a whole lot of white sweet woodruff in there. From probably a very small start from "under the neighbors fence." FREE. But I think you might also beseeing the foam flowers that are there also. I love the white flowers on WSW in the spring. But it does spread I usually pull lots out in the late spring like now! And it just grows back... I seen the most beautiful coral belles at a nother gardeners house the other day! Kinda looks dark to medium red so Beautiful! Would any one know the name? Kinda vage I know in the description. But I want one now! It never ends. Ronna

I like the Bressingham hybrids. The color of the one I have is quite saturated.
My mother used to use coral bells (heuchera) as fillers in bouquets she gave to neighbors. They add a nice touch of fairy daintiness next to, say, zinnias.
So many people don't know about heucheras, and even less are familiar with heucherellas. I have two pink heucherellas which are blooming long after their tiarella parents have gone to seed.
I like the good, old zonal coral bells, but I have butterscotch, which in certain light conditions is almost luminous. I also have Purple Palace and one silver-frosted dominatrix which is taking over ever-larger space. Its flowers are pitiful white.
My coral bells are planted at the edge of a one-stone-high retaining wall in good drainage have acid soil, so each year I give them a bit of lime--what a difference it has made!

quiltjean, that sound so wonderful! I love the splashes of color they add. I really had no idea that they grew so large.. But a few of mine are in the more dappled sun and man they are huge!!! I especially love the dark burgandy ones. I have obsidian and lots of purple palace. Also have bressinghams. The flowers are so bright red. Hummers love them... Have lots others also. But can I think of there names right now? Of course not. LOL. Ronna

Maybe we could do a swap or trades this Fall.
Teresa in KY

Perhaps, that would be fun... I really want that red on I seen in another yard. So beautiful it was kinda fall or autumn colors. Ronna

Oh, I wish the hummers would come! I have rose etunias, pinkish-red salvia, heliotrope, red/yellow lantana, fuchsias all on my porch, and daylilies, rudbeckia and echinacia plus a flood of monarda in the garden (it took off this year) and all I see is small insects, a few bees, bumble and honey. No hummers, no butterflies except the little white one and the yellow one patterned like a Monarch.
Perhaps this is because the nearest garden to me is about 2/10 mile away along the river. Notan environment rich in enticements!