In recent years what seems like floods of heucheras have appeared in nurseries. These fine foliage plants for the front of the border and for containers provide colour in a wide range of unique shades. Many are good, a few, it has to be said are, not good at all - and a few are simply superb. After the... Read more..

Looking around the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this afternoon, all the exhibitors are relieved that the heat wave is now a little less fierce. Bringing plants in a van from the other end of the country in that heat wouldn't leave them in good condition. Some exhibitors have yet to make an appearance... Read more..

When looking over the Gold Medal exhibit staged by Plantagogo at this week's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show , the new varieties are to be found on the sales table and not on the exhbit itself. Plantagogo's Vicky and Richard Fox specialise in bringing in new varieties from Terra Nova Nurseries... Read more..

Plantagogo are Heuchera specialists and are introducing eleven new varieties of Heuchera and related plants at this year's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show . Next up are two more that originate from Terra Nova Nurseries over in Oregon (no retail sales). The leaf colour of Heuchera ‘Sugar Plum'... Read more..

Finally, the last of the many new heucheras (and Heuchera relations) introduced by Plantagogo at the recent Hampton Court Palace Flower Show . They had eleven new varieties on sale at the Show, all originating at Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon (no retail sales), and this is the final trio. Heuchera ... Read more..

Heucheras are now the second most popular perennials with RHS members, so with three brand new varieties available to order it only seems reasonable to feature them. They are ‘Electric Lime', ‘Midnight Bayou', and ‘Shanghai'. All are from the extensive Heuchera breeding programme at Terra... Read more..

I have to admit something. I can't remember how much any of my children weighed when they were born. I'm also hazy on when they began to walk and I've no idea what any of their first words were. However, I think I will always remember Saturday 27th March 2010 because this was the date my... Read more..

Heucheras continue to be launched at a fast pace, there are twenty two in the new RHS PlantFinder . I covered the two available from the most nurseries three weeks ago, but another five are available from five or six nurseries. Four are American, one is from France. There are some startling colours.... Read more..

New heucheras just keep on coming and just when you though there were enough another outstanding new one arrives - and 'Magnum' certainly looks impressive. The feature that stands out in this new introduction is the size of the foliage: each leaf is up to 10in/25cm across! With the whole plant... Read more..

The flood of new varieties of Heuchera that have originated in the United States has perhaps distracted us from the fact that Europe is also generating some superb new varieties. One of the best of recent introductions, from France, was a finalist in this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Plant of The Year... Read more..