Heucheras: the most beautiful varieties

Heuchera 'Caramel', with warm autumn colours

With its russet hues evoking the beauty of autumn, the Heuchera ‘Caramel’ is one of the most cherished varieties. Its foliage boasts numerous qualities. Evergreen, it provides a permanent plant display, even in winter when the garden sheds its leaves and flowers. Changing, the foliage declinates into different tones throughout the seasons: from golden amber, it transitions to apricot, then to darker orange, before taking on delightful rosy and coppery shades. This colour change contrasts with the purple underside of the leaves. From June to July, the heuchera bears small white, cream, and pink flowers.

In the garden, use this heuchera, which reaches 30 cm in height and 40 cm in spread, as a colourful groundcover. Plant it in a shaded or part-shaded spot, and accompany it with other heucheras in red and brown tones, as well as white and red tulips to create a beautiful spring display.

Heuchera ‘Caramel’

Heuchera 'Green Spice', with stunning silver reflections

The heuchera ‘Green Spice’ is also valued for its stunning colours. Its foliage, which is also evergreen, features silver highlights that contrast with purple veins on a green background. In autumn, the colours transform to pumpkin orange. From May to June, the foliage is topped by a fluffy cloud of white or cream flowers.

The heuchera ‘Green Spice’ reaches a height of 40 cm and a width of 50 cm. It is drought-resistant and prefers to be planted in shade, either in a border or at the front of a flower bed. Pair it with small ferns, such as Canadian capillary, and with Naples cyclamen.

Heuchera ‘Green Spice’

Heuchera 'Georgia Peach', the fiery beauty

With its vibrant colours, the heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’ could well be the star of the borders. With its orange and pink foliage speckled with silver, it looks stunning in flowering pots as well as in borders. Above its evergreen leaves, tiny spikes of white to cream flowers rise in June and July, adding a lightness to the displays.

This plant reaches 60 cm in height and 30 cm in width, thriving in partially shaded spots and pairing beautifully with other heucheras in orange and russet tones, such as heuchera ‘Caramel’. Add red cannas, sea thrift, and red, orange, and yellow tulips for a dazzling ensemble.

Heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’

Heuchera 'Obsidian', a dark foliage to create contrast

The heuchera ‘Obsidian’ is a variety named after a black stone from volcanoes: obsidian. This is no coincidence, as it displays dark foliage, almost black, in brown tones tinged with purple. With its evergreen foliage in unusual colours for a garden, it creates surprising contrasts. The white, cream, or even pale yellow flowering appears in June and July.

Pair this perennial, which reaches 30 cm in height and 40 cm in width, with white flowers such as hostas, daffodils, astilbes, lily of the valley, and brunneras, as well as light green foliage plants like heucheras ‘Lime Rickey’, which you should place in the shade at the base of trees.

Heuchera ‘Obsidian’

Heuchera 'Lime Rickey', a soft green foliage

The heuchera ‘Lime Rickey’ stands out with its tender green to yellow-green leaf colour. With its evergreen and luminous foliage, it decorates paths and pots throughout the year. In June and July, the foliage is topped by flowering stems bearing small white or cream bell-shaped flowers.

This plant reaches a height of 50 cm and a spread of 40 cm. You can pair it with other heucheras with red, black, or orange foliage, as well as with wild garlic and Bleeding Hearts in a shaded area.

Heuchera ‘Lime Rickey’

Heuchera 'Berry Smoothie', a delightful pink

The heuchera ‘Berry Smoothie’ boasts charming leaves in an unusual pink that catch the eye in a garden or on a balcony. In spring, they take on a bright pink hue, and in autumn, they turn a purplish pink. In June and July, spikes of small white and cream flowers are borne on red stems.

At maturity, the heuchera ‘Berry Smoothie’ reaches a height of 45 cm and a width of 50 cm. It pairs beautifully with plants in warm colours—reds, russets, oranges, and yellows—such as heucheras ‘Marmelade’ and ‘Caramel’, tulips, and wallflowers. Add grasses and sedges to bring lightness to the border.

Heuchera ‘Berry Smoothie’

Heuchera 'Marmalade', with changing colours

With its undulating-edged leaves in warm, changing colours, heuchera ‘Marmelade’ provides a true colour spectacle throughout the seasons. Its tones range from golden bronze to orange and pink, with hints reminiscent of café au lait.

Its evergreen foliage forms a lush cushion 35 cm high and 45 cm wide. It produces airy, delicate flowers in white and cream during June and July. Use it as a colourful groundcover in a border alongside heucheras with warm hues like heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’ or ‘Caramel’, and at the base of Japanese maples with red leaves to create a warm-toned display.

Heuchera ‘Marmelade’

Heuchera 'Palace Purple', a lovely purple foliage

The heuchera ‘Palace Purple’ features semi-evergreen foliage in a purple hue. The deeply lobed leaves resemble those of maples, making it a beautiful companion in a Japanese-style garden. Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’ forms a lush cushion measuring 50 cm by 50 cm, from which emerge, in June and July, stems adorned with red and cream bell-shaped flowers.

Plant it as a groundcover at the base of pale pink roses, such as the rose ‘Frédéric Mistral’, to create a striking colour contrast. You can add ‘Peach Blossom’ astilbes with their airy pale pink flowers to lighten the overall effect while maintaining a harmonious colour palette.

Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’

Heuchera 'Tiramisu', with multicoloured leaves

The heuchera ‘Tiramisu’ features some of the most original semi-evergreen foliage. Round and veined, the leaves change colour over time, transitioning from golden-green to orange, brick, purple, and finally light chocolate brown. A beautiful palette of colours unfolds before your eyes!

It blooms from June to July, bearing small white to cream bells. You can pair it with other heucheras, as well as chrysanthemums and heleniums.

Heuchera ‘Tiramisu’

For further reading

Many other original colours can be discovered among the heucheras, such as the golden hue of the heuchera ‘Happy Flames’ or the coppery orange shades of the heuchera ‘Caribbean Sea’. These plants will be a great help in adding colour and decoration to your garden and balcony.

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