Categories of Coral Bells: The Garden Group

When breeders Coral Bells Plant Breeding classes begin, they often have the end goal in mind the type of plants you want to create a commercial market. Growers identify important decorative features and the creation of breeding programs that focus on improving important traits for several generations of controlled crosses. In this way, farmers would gradually and incremental progress toward its goals. Occasionally, a sport or mutation will occur in the breeding program that makes a big leap towards the goal or generates a new move. In any case, it is important to understand the kinds of traits that breeders are looking for a Heuchera. In his book, Heuchera, Tiarella and Heucherella: Gardener manual, professional breeders Charles and Martha Oliver define 5 groups of Heuchera. For this article series, I am going to use the same 5 groups proposed Olivers with some minor changes to your name and I'll add some "cut flowers" as well. Our 6 Heuchera group are:

1) Garden Heuchera 2) Alpine Garden Heuchera 3) rock garden Heuchera 4) naturalizing Heuchera 5) The collector's point of Heuchera 6) Cut flower Heuchera

Heuchera Garden (1) Best for perennial beds and the main focus of this list eseja.Veliki garden Heuchera is in the "type, group and sort list 'below. Most garden Heuchera hybrids are a complex background, which includes parents from Heuchera Alba, Heuchera Americana, brizoides Heuchera, Heuchera cylindrica, MAXIMA Heuchera, Heuchera micrantha, pilosissima Heuchera, Heuchera pubescens, Heuchera sanguinea and Heuchera villosa.

a general rule, in the garden Heuchera was selected to perform well in a garden setting, have a nice mounded habit, the colorful flowers, and has a flower stalk that is in relation to the plant (not too high, not too short). Growers then make a choice for one or more specific decorative features that are commercially vrijednost.Najvažniji move to the garden Heuchera leaf color and leaf color pattern. In the wild, Heuchfera leaves usually emerald green with occasional purple veins, bronze / purple hue, or silver interveinal marking. Modern breeders have made remarkable discoveries by leaf color. They were introduced: hitting white, silver or purple patterns on the face sheet; veination bold purple, red, bronze, purple, or yellow Chartreuse leaf color and crinkled or wavy leaves. In addition, farmers have improved their flowers increase in size, color enhancement and change the bloom time.

Not every Heuchera will grow well in hot and humid southern U.S. and some breeders are working on creating a heat tolerant Heuchera that are colorful. Here at Plant Delights nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Gardens in Raleigh, NC, we choose the most heat tolerant cultivars are available for our garden and our mail order catalog.

garden Heuchera can be further divided into categories based on their fundamental properties of interest.

Group 1: Heuchera Garden division: 1a) floral interest, 1b) green leaves 1C) purple or red leaves 1d) red or bronze leaves 1e) Chartreuse or yellow leaves

Heuchera Garden with flower interest (1a) generally have bright bold colors, bell-shaped blooms and more flowers than the wild type. Modern Flower colors include white, pink, coral, crimson, scarlet, and red. Huecheras are grown for their open, airy floral effect in vrtu.Cvijeće look best when grown in large sweeps of 10 or more plants.

Heuchera Garden with green and silver / white leaves (1b) have interesting veination pattterned or other markings on the face sheet. Silver or white interveinal patterns are quite striking, brighten a shady corner, and make a formal garden view.

Our favorite flower (1a) Heuchera and silver-leaved Heuchera (1b) here at Plant Delights nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden is Heuchera 'Paris' with its coral flowers and strong green veins and silvery-white inter-veinal pattern.

Heuchera Garden with purple or red leaves (1C) makes a striking statement in the garden. As with other black-leaved plants, and looks better as a specimen plant, edging plant, or as a contrast color to white or yellow plants, and not as a mass planting. Our favorite purple-leaved Heuchera here Plant Delights nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden is heat tolerant cultivars of Heuchera 'Obsidian' and Heuchera 'Frosted Violet'. These are the improvements to the industry standard "Palace Purple'.

Heuchera Garden with purple or red leaves (1C) makes a striking statement in the garden. As with other black-leaved plants, and looks better as a specimen plant, edging plant, or as a contrast color to white or yellow plants, and not as a mass planting. Our favorite purple-leaved Heuchera here Plant Delights nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden is heat tolerant cultivars of Heuchera 'Obsidian' and Heuchera 'Frosted Violet'. These are the improvements to the industry standard "Palace Purple'.

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Heuchera Garden in red or bronze leaves (1d) are very interesting because they represent the color of a breakthrough. This group Heuchera often change color throughout sezone.Crvene or bronze color is usually best early in the season, and plant green-out 'as the temperature warms up. Growers are doing this deliberately to make the color stick around all year, or that the color change in an attractive manner. At Plant Delights nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden we have several important red and bronze varieties. Heuchera 'Caramel' is very tolerant of heat and vlage.Lišće change from butterscotch to Peachy-orange as the season progresses. Heuchera 'Georgia Peach' is also very heat tolerant and peachy red leaves with dark red veins. Heuchera 'Miracle' leaves off Chartreuse. In the fall of the developing red veins and late winter, the entire leaf turns red with Chartreuse edge. Similarly, Heuchera 'Tiramisu "out amber / Chartreuse, developed red veins in the summer, which spread in the form of red leaves with Chartreuse border in winter. Heuchera 'Southern Comfort' leaves appear Peachy-orange color and move on to the yellow-orange, and coral -orange in winter.