Heuchera hybrida 'Prince' pm 5-1-09.
FAMILY: Saxifrageceae
GENUS: Herchera
CULTIVAR: hybrida ‘Prince’
This cultivar has nice purple leaves and prudence white blooms. Information says this variety grows 24-36″, and I am quite sure that is with the blooms. In Minnesota, a friend of mine has these HUGE mounds of Heucheras. In Missouri, all I had were these old ‘Coral Bells’ that barely grew over 6 inches tall. I had ordered others but they never made it though the winter. I could never figure out how that some plants could thrive in the horrid winters of Minnesota and not in Missouri where the winters are much milder. The reason, I now realize, is that in Minnesota the ground freezes after the plants go dormant and stay frozen. In mid-Missouri, we have that freeze and thaw where the plants would start to come out of dormacy, then get froze again. After a few times, the plants die.
The Heuchera will grow in sun to part shade, but like it in well drained soil. Here in Mississippi, they get lots of water in certain periods, then no water with excessive heat… Well, if they make it through that, then in the Fall they go through excessive rain again. Most perennials like well drained soil, and that just doesn’t happen here… So, they go ahead and rot anyway!
