To add brightness and beauty to your garden, let's learn about heuchera, its varieties and types, with photos and names, and determine which one is best suited for your garden.
Let's say right away - the plant is unpretentious, not demanding to the soil, it grows well both in the sun and in a little partial shade, so there will be no special fuss with growing it.
Choose a suitable site, free from stagnant water, with good drainage, water moderately, and fertilize only once per season. That's all there is to care for. Now let's look at the heuchera varieties themselves.
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Caramel Heuchera
Its beautiful yellow, large leaves will brighten a flowerbed with vibrant roses or eustoma, and pair beautifully with astilbe and primroses. It thrives in warm, humid climates, and can grow up to 30 cm tall, occasionally blooming with light pink flowers.
Cappuccino
An evergreen shrub with bronze-colored leaves and racemose tubular flowers that emerge with the onset of summer—that's what this variety looks like, beautiful and unusual. It pairs well with brunnera and bergenia.
Red heuchera
This evergreen perennial, also known as coral bellflower, boasts large, vibrant leaves and red flowers. It will add a beautiful pop of color to your garden and will certainly enhance its appearance.
Purple Castle
With leaves resembling ivy, the evergreen heuchera will steal the show when planted in clusters. It also looks quite picturesque in bouquets. It's best planted alongside daylilies and astilbe.
Heuchera hybrid
With large, decorative leaves ranging in shades from white to bright red, it's a very beautiful plant. However, it needs to be protected from the wind, as gusts can break it. Crossing it with American heuchera produces stunning foliage and delicate, delicate flowers.
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Planting and care
Heuchera can be easily propagated by division and also grown from seeds. Let's look at each method.
Dividing the bushes It's very easy to transplant this beauty throughout your garden. Dig up the bush, divide it into sections, trim the stems back to the young tissue, and remove any dried shoots. Trim the roots if they're too long, and remove any rotting areas. Sprinkle the cuttings with gold leaf, add ash to the holes, and plant, watering and protecting from the sun. Once new roots have grown, you can move the plants to other areas.
Seeds Heuchera is easy to plant, but there are a few nuances. Expiration date: If you buy them in paper bags, be aware that the shelf life is short—up to six months. If you buy them in foil, the shelf life is up to eighteen months.
Sow in loose, pre-warmed soil, poured into a suitable container, with some sand. Mix the seeds with sand, as they are very fine, and cover with glass. Once the sprouts appear, lift the glass, but do not remove it. Ensure consistent light and moderate moisture, but avoid drafts. Once three leaves appear, transplant the plants. They are ready to be transplanted into the garden by May 15-18. They can be overwintered in the garden, but they need to be covered. That's the whole process of growing heuchera—simple and effortless.
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