All of the heucheras in the photo below are ones I've grown from seeds collected from random heucheras I have growing all around the garden. I wouldn't consider myself an expert but do love growing them. I'm surprised at the amount of variation and colour as I was expecting lots of plain green offspring with just one or two with colour, but not so:
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
It'll take the pressure off my clematis addiction for a while if nothing else! That's an impressive array of plants, all the more satisfying for being self-grown
Yes addictive I have several of them in the red/orange ones which are lovely with the sun behind them.
Paprika, Cranberry , Georgia Peach. Paris , is good. Silver Scrolls have lovely patterned leaves. I have just divided mine by carefully washing off the soil and separating mine and now have three.
This is a good time of year for buying perennials of any kind. They're usually filling their pots, and can be easily divided up. Heucheras are among the easiest of all - pull a bit off, stick in a little pot, and stand back
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looking at the original pictures, I'm pretty certain that the pale green one with marked veins is "Yellowstone Falls" which I have in a very shady spot. Like Lime Marmalade it just bursts with colour in that situation alongside Paprika. The purple leaved ones seem to do better in dappled shade.
As if on cue, one of my heucheras has succumbed to the dreaded weevil so I will be trying to resuce that this afternoon and giving the others a good inspection.
.....They're almost impossible to kill, very easy to take cuttings of, and generally low maintenance.....
I really struggle with them - useless gardener that I is...😁 Have probably killed off more heucheras and heucherellas than almost any other species of plant. Keep buying them because the foliage looks so good.
Probably something to do with being in the hot, dry SE rather than cool, damp Scotland. However, there are 2 heucheras I have kept for several years (large healthy plants). They are in a south facing, dry as a bone bed and I only put them in to fill a couple of gaps while some shrubs were establishing thinking they'd be gone after a season or two. Nope - still there and going great guns. Contrary little b's.😁
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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That's an impressive array of plants, all the more satisfying for being self-grown
Paprika, Cranberry , Georgia Peach.
Paris , is good.
Silver Scrolls have lovely patterned leaves. I have just divided mine by carefully washing off the soil and separating mine and now have three.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Heucheras are among the easiest of all - pull a bit off, stick in a little pot, and stand back
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Is that why they suffer from heave cos they're always trying to take off?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Probably something to do with being in the hot, dry SE rather than cool, damp Scotland. However, there are 2 heucheras I have kept for several years (large healthy plants). They are in a south facing, dry as a bone bed and I only put them in to fill a couple of gaps while some shrubs were establishing thinking they'd be gone after a season or two. Nope - still there and going great guns. Contrary little b's.😁