Wild Rose Heuchera Plants

Heuchera 'Wild Rose' (Primo Series). 2-Litre Pot-Grown Plants

Although it has small and rather pretty rosy coloured flowers opening from dark buds on tall slender stems, it's the colour of the mound-forming large leaves of this heuchera that really catch the eye here: a bright purple-pink with deep charcoal grey veining. It flowers in summer: dark buds open to a rosy pink.

Browse our other Heuchera varieties, or all of our perennial plants.

Features

• Bright purple foliage.
• Semi-evergreen perennial
• Long thin stalks of small white flowers with pink calyxes
• Flowering: June-August
• To 40 x 40cm
• Likes dappled shade
• Any well-drained soil
• Primo series

Growing 'Wild Rose' Heucheras

These undemanding plants need a well-drained soil, ideally on the sandy/gritty side, with neutral to mildly acidic pH.
They like some dappled shade at midday: given shelter and moist soil, full sun by itself will do little damage to the foliage, but a combination of full sun, wind and dry soil tends to scorch it.

In mild conditions, heuchera keep their leaves through winter. Tidy tired-looking leaves each spring.

Garden Design Ideas

With such a pop of purple, this is one to show off in a pot or to create a contrast with grasses, geraniums and - put on your sunglasses - Heuchera 'Lime Marmalade'.

The Primo series is made up of larger, more vigorous than average varieties, with ostentatious leaves that fill up a decent amount of space in a border, though they're happy in containers too. Good complementary plant companions are Carex 'Milk Chocolate' and Geranium 'Chocolate Candy'.

History & Trivia

Bred by Hans Hansen, director of new plant development at Walters Gardens in Michigan, from Heuchera villosa, the hairy alumroot (the common name coral bells is mostly applied to H sanguinea).