Heuchera 'Chocolate Ruffles' (PBR)
coral bells
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: fertile, moist or well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: June to August
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Airy sprays of tiny, white, bell shaped summer flowers appear on wiry stems above neat mounds of large, ruffled, chocolate brown and burgundy leaves. Like most heuchera, this one is grown mainly for its distinctive foliage and it looks particularly effective planted in large drifts. It is semi-evergreen and makes an eyecatching front-of-border plant.- Garden care:
Heucheras do not like dry soil. Remove tatty foliage in autumn. Lift and divide clumps every couple of years in early autumn and re plant with the crown just above the surface of the soil. Apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted organic matter round the crown of the plant in spring.
- Eventual Height: 0.4m
- Eventual Spread: 0.5m