FREE: 5 Firefly Heuchera (Coral Bells) Seeds

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FIREFLY
Coral Bells Seeds
Heuchera sanguinea splendens

This superb selection produces loads of brilliant dark scarlet bell-shaped flowers on 14-24 inch stems from May to July. Hummingbirds love them and they are long lasting cut flowers. Great for edging the front of borders or use as a small scale ground cover. Prefers full sun in the North and part Shade in the South. Winter hardy to zone 3.

Many of the more ornately leafed varieties of heuchera can have rather tiny flowers, being prized for their foliage rather than flower. By contrast H. sanguinea are all about the flowers. While the foliage is secondary to its appeal, the maply-lobed green basal leaves are nevertheless extremely pleasant and almost evergreen.

Blooms on loose panicles which are at their best from May through July. Later flowers can also be relied upon, especially with deadheading. All in all, a rather special strain with large panicles of vermilion red flowers that has the added advantage of being fragrant and an excellent cut flower.

'Firefly' (registered in Europe as 'Leuchkafer') was selectively bred to increase the vermillion intensity of its flowers, the colour having a particular appeal to hummingbirds!

The National Garden Bureau (NGB) chose the Heuchera as its perennial of the year for 2012.