Catalog Description
Great for edging and adding color and vivid contrast with green foliaged plants. Brilliantly colored purple-red foliage creates a spectacular background for the sprays of tiny white flowers. Evergreen. Full to partial sun. Moderate-growing mounds to 18 inches high and wide. Seed grown. |
Design Ideas
An exquisite small perennial that should be grouped with others of similar stature and quality. Ideal in the front of rock gardens and perennial borders, where they will be fully appreciated. Since it blooms under some shade, it is a valuable transition plant linking shaded flowering shrubs with sun-loving ones. Take advantage of the bronze coloring by using as an edging plant or against variegated backgrounds.
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Companion Plants
Group Coral Bells with little beauties like Thrift (Armeria setacea), White Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum `Album`), Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata `Emerald Blue`) and for variety add Vera Jameson Stonecrop (Sedum x `Vera Jameson`).
Consider Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus) for silver-gray accents and Dwarf Blue Miniature Bearded Iris (Iris pumila `Dwarf Blue`).
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate growing mounds to 18 in. high and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Great for edging and adding color and vivid contrast with green-foliaged plants. The brilliantly colored foliage creates spectacular background for the sprays of tiny white flowers. Evergreen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a neat appearance, remove old foliage before new leaves emerge. Divide clumps every 2 to 3 years in early spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Clumping |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 8 (10 to 20 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 4 (-30 to -20 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Tiny, tubulr-shaped flowers
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Summer. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Seed grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| No Value |
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Attributes
Border Plant
Flowers for Cutting
Clump Forming
Dramatic Foliage Color
Easy Care Plant
Extremely Hardy
Groundcover
Hummingbird Friendly
Native Plant
Rock Garden Plant
Summer Flowering
Woodland Garden
Cottage Garden Plant |
Foliage
Hariy, toothed, lobed leaves
| Foliage Shape | Heart-shaped |
| Normal foliage color | Bronze |
| Underside foliage | Bronze |
| Juvenile foliage | Bronze |
| Mature foliage | Bronze |
| New foliage | Bronze |
| Spring foliage | Bronze |
| Summer foliage | Bronze |
| Fall foliage | Bronze |
| Winter foliage | Bronze |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
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