x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle
x Heucherella Sweet Tea
Very lovely! Arrived in poor condition because it was taken out of its bucket, but it has already grown 2 new leaves and seems to be thriving.
Marie Laure, 19/05/2020
Special offer!
Receive a €20 voucher for any order over €90 (excluding delivery costs, credit notes, and plastic-free options)!
1- Add your favorite plants to your cart.
2- Once you have reached €90, confirm your order (you can even choose the delivery date!).
3- As soon as your order is shipped, you will receive an email containing your voucher code, valid for 3 months (90 days).
Your voucher is unique and can only be used once, for any order with a minimum value of €20, excluding delivery costs.
Can be combined with other current offers, non-divisible and non-refundable.
Home or relay delivery (depending on size and destination)
Important: You may be charged customs duties by your country’s customs authorities upon delivery.
Schedule delivery date,
and select date in basket
This plant carries a 12 months recovery warranty
More information
We guarantee the quality of our plants for a full growing cycle, and will replace at our expense any plant that fails to recover under normal climatic and planting conditions.
Would this plant suit my garden?
Set up your Plantfit profile →
Description
The Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ is a reliable choice among heucherellas with colourful foliage. It stands out with its large, palm-shaped leaves in warm, changing colours. Apricot orange to orangey-pink in spring, marked with a burgundy star, they then take on shades of cinnamon, copper, and russet brown in summer. Vigorous and very hardy, this variety copes well with hot, humid summers. Fine clusters of white flowers rise gracefully above its foliage in late spring.
× Heucherella belong to the Saxifragaceae family. They are hybrids between two distinct genera, Heuchera and Tiarella. 'Sweet Tea’ was selected by Janet N. Egger for Terra Nova Nurseries, in Oregon, and introduced in 2009. It results from a controlled cross between Heuchera ‘V3’, an uncommercialised hybrid with Heuchera villosa ancestry, and several tiarellas. This lineage explains its more spreading habit and its better tolerance of summer heat and humidity compared to many older heucherellas. The plant forms a dense clump of fibrous roots. Its foliage reaches 40 to 50 cm in height and spreads 60 to 70 cm wide. The flower stems can rise up to 60 or 70 cm. Each leaf, borne on a long petiole, measures up to 15 cm in length. It is divided into seven main lobes, with a rounded, cut edge reminiscent of certain maple leaves. In spring, the lamina displays a pinkish-orange or apricot colour, traversed by brown to burgundy veins. The tones darken during summer, turning copper, russet, and cinnamon brown. In autumn, the foliage returns to reddish-orange hues, then reddish-brown in winter. These variations depend on temperature and light levels: colours are more vivid in the cool season and in dappled light. From May to June, numerous slender stems rise from the foliage. They bear narrow clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers. A hard frost can damage the foliage or cause it to die back partially, without threatening the crown, which withstands down to –29 °C in well-drained soil.
The copper-coloured foliage of this Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ pairs well with Hosta ‘Blue Ivory’, blue-green variegated with cream, with Brunnera ‘Looking Glass’, almost entirely silver, and with Athyrium niponicum var. pictum, a fern with grey and silver fronds washed with purple. All these plants enjoy the same conditions. Their leaves differ in shape and texture: broad in the hosta, heart-shaped in the brunnera, and finely cut in the fern. In spring, the sky-blue flowers of the brunnera precede the white clusters of the heucherella; the foliage remains decorative until autumn.
```x Heucherella Sweet Tea - Désespoir du peintre, Heuchérelle in pictures
Flowering
Foliage
Plant habit
Botanical data
x Heucherella
Sweet Tea
Saxifragaceae
× Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
The Heucherella 'Sweet Tea' can be planted from March to May or in September-October, in partial shade or gentle morning sun. Choose a humus-bearing, fertile, moist and well-drained soil, preferably acidic to neutral. In clay soil, incorporate mature compost or leaf mould and plant slightly raised. Avoid chalky soils and positions dried out by the roots of large trees. Place the collar at soil level without burying it. Water regularly during the first year and maintain a mulch of dead leaves around the clump. In a pot, use a pierced container and an aerated substrate; water when the surface begins to dry out, without leaving water in the saucer. The stump tends to rise towards the surface with age. Every three or four years, divide it in spring or early autumn, then replant the divisions with their collars at soil level.
Planting period
Intended location
Care
Planting & care advice
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
, onOrder confirmed
Reply from on Promesse de fleurs
Recently viewed products
Haven't found what you were looking for?
Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:- In zones 9 to 10 (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), flowering will occur about 2 to 4 weeks earlier.
- In zones 6 to 7 (Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and lower mountainous regions), flowering will be delayed by 2 to 3 weeks.
- In zone 5 (Central Europe, Scandinavia), blooming will be delayed by 3 to 5 weeks.
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
- In Mediterranean zones (Marseille, Madrid, Milan, etc.), autumn and winter are the best planting periods.
- In continental zones (Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, etc.), delay planting by 2 to 3 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 2 to 4 weeks in autumn.
- In mountainous regions (the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, etc.), it is best to plant in late spring (May-June) or late summer (August-September).
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.