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Foamy Bells
Heucherella
Heucherella
Growing Conditions
Sun exposure: part shade to full shade (4 or less hours of sunlight a day)
Soil: performs best in average soils with good drainage
Traits
Special Care Instructions
Foamy Bells prefer average, well-drained soils. Excessively wet soils in winter can be fatal. Overwintering success can be improved by planting the crown a just above the soil level and covering it with mulch.
Flowering Time
May through August, depending on the variety.
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
Foamy Bells are the result of crossing Coral Bells (Heuchera) with Foam Flowers (Tiarella). This hybrid resulted in plants with the wide variety of foliage colors found in Coral Bells, with the larger, showier flowers found in Foam Flowers.
These densely mounded perennials produces numerous sprays of white or pink flowers from spring well into summer. Breeding has produced a wide range of foliage textures including smooth, wavy, and crinkled. Foliage colors include yellows, oranges, silvers, ambers, and greens. Because they require very little water or maintenance, and because they are showy all year, Foamy Bells are great in mixed containers. They all benefit from well drained soils, partial shade and have become versatile, well-adapted plants for the Midwest garden. Heights listed are without flowers.
Varieties
Soil: performs best in average soils with good drainage
Traits
Special Care Instructions
Foamy Bells prefer average, well-drained soils. Excessively wet soils in winter can be fatal. Overwintering success can be improved by planting the crown a just above the soil level and covering it with mulch.
Flowering Time
May through August, depending on the variety.
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
Foamy Bells are the result of crossing Coral Bells (Heuchera) with Foam Flowers (Tiarella). This hybrid resulted in plants with the wide variety of foliage colors found in Coral Bells, with the larger, showier flowers found in Foam Flowers.
These densely mounded perennials produces numerous sprays of white or pink flowers from spring well into summer. Breeding has produced a wide range of foliage textures including smooth, wavy, and crinkled. Foliage colors include yellows, oranges, silvers, ambers, and greens. Because they require very little water or maintenance, and because they are showy all year, Foamy Bells are great in mixed containers. They all benefit from well drained soils, partial shade and have become versatile, well-adapted plants for the Midwest garden. Heights listed are without flowers.
Varieties
Attracts Butterflies
Deer Resistant
Attracts Hummingbirds
Low Water Requirements
Good Cut Flower
Brass Lanterns 15" tall
Buttered Rum 7" tall
| • | Outstanding vigor combined with lacquered, brassy-red spring foliage that deepens to antique brass in the fall makes this selection stand out in the garden. |
| • | Maple shaped leaves form a large mound of semi-evergreen foliage that works well in a bed or a container. |
| • | Spikes of small white flowers are borne on dark stems in spring. |
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| • | Caramel colored, deeply-cut maple leaves cover this plant from spring to summer. |
| • | In fall, the cool weather turns the leaves a brilliant rose red. |
| • | Compared to Sweet Tea or Brass Lantern, it is more compact and low. |
| • | Glossy foliage keeps good color all year. |
Golden Zebra 10-12" tall
| • | Both the coloring and the shape of the leaves are utterly fantastic! |
| • | Foliage is bright yellow, feathery, and boldly marked with dark red along the center and veins. |
| • | White flowers on airy spikes in spring. |
| • | Prefers part-shade. |
Redstone Falls 8-12" tall
| • | This vigorous grower sends out low, spreading stems that will make a colorful groundcover or low maintenance hanging basket. |
| • | It is covered in copper colored leaves with dark veins in the spring and summer. In the fall, the leaves darken to different shades of red and brown. |
| • | White flowers in mid-summer. |
| • | For best color, plant in a partly shaded area. |
Solar Eclipse 10-12" tall
| • | New spring leaves are a bright, cheerful yellow liberally splattered with dark red spots toward the center. |
| • | Mature leaves are brown-red with a distinct lime-green edge. |
| • | White flowers are held above the foliage in early summer. |
| • | Prefers afternoon shade. |
| • | In spring, leaves are mostly chartreuse with light red veining. It displays large, yellow, maple-shaped leaves and red veins in summer. Fall leaves have dramatic red tints. |
| • | White flowers in early summer. |
| • | As with other plants in the Falls™ Series, the trailing stems suggest use as a groundcover or in a hanging basket. |
| • | For best color, plant in a partly shaded |
Sunrise Falls 8-12" tall
| • | The leaves first emerge in the spring as a deep pink-purple color and matures to a vibrant plum purple in the summer. |
| • | The foliage is covered in fine hairs that give it a "frosted" look. |
| • | Creamy pink flowers are borne on 30" stems from late spring into late summer. |
| • | Grows best with some afternoon shade |
Thunderbird 9" tall
Copper Cascade 7" tall
| • | This trailing, groundcover has lovely refined copper-gold foliage that is muted but distinct and holds its color all year. |
| • | The leaves are shaped more like a Coral Bell and the trailing stems are very flexible. |
| • | For best color, plant in a partly shaded area. |
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Dayglow Pink Foamy Bells
