New purchase - updated with pics~

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 16, 2006 5:27 pm

at the convention no less!

Leave it to me to go to the AHS Nat'l and buy a heuchera....

I got Midnight Rose. Absolutely stunning IMHO. I'll post a photo as soon as I can......

Alexa

doublemom2 · Post by **doublemom2** » Jun 17, 2006 3:10 pm

Sounds wonderful! I've never seen it, would love to see a photo when you get a chance

Andi

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 17, 2006 6:39 pm

I know I said I got Midnight Rose... well I got 2 more today too!

I can't believe how enamoured I am with Heucheras all of a sudden!

Anyway.... here they are......

Midnight Rose

Caramel

Geisha's Fan

I am OUT OF CONTROL!

Alexa

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jun 17, 2006 8:29 pm

Oh, they are all beauties! I know what you mean. I can't resist a pretty heuchera.

tsneal · Post by **tsneal** » Jun 17, 2006 10:56 pm

Oh wow...very nice!!!!!

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 18, 2006 8:11 am

Nice! I love these too! Might have to start looking for Geisha's Fan. I have Caramel already, and have a number of them similar to the Midnight Rose...but I do tend to lose the names of my heuchs.
Linda P

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 18, 2006 1:21 pm

I got addicted to heucheras the year after hostas....

All of the colors you can't find in hostas - you can in heucheras, so I think they compliment each other very nicely.

Midnight Rose looks similar to several I have too - but there are a lot that are similar. I just moved my Geisha's fan from the holding bed to a garden I've been reworking on Friday. Caramel is on my 'to do' list.

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » Jun 18, 2006 9:26 pm

All of them are gorgeous! I have the feeling a heuchera addiction might be in my future...especially if I keep coming to this forum.

bengal · Post by **bengal** » Jun 19, 2006 12:54 pm

My immediate reaction when I saw Caramel as Alexa pointed it out was, "Eh...yawn...big deal (not)."

I mean really, a heuchera is a heuchera. But I liked the pic of Midnight Rose so much that I went online last night to hunt down a source....five minutes later, I'd started a heuchera wish list.

It's quite short (so far):

Mardi Gras
Midnight Rose
Peach Flambe
Sashay

Something tells me this is only the beginning

bengal · Post by **bengal** » Jun 19, 2006 5:18 pm

and I forgot to add that I've already found several sources for Caramel. So much for "eh" and "yawn."

Alexa's pic of it next to the darker ones did the trick!

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Jun 20, 2006 11:34 am

Bengal,

I'm sure Alexa got that plant from RareFind Nursery, which is not too far up the road from you in NJ (which exit is Great Adventure?). I'm planning a road trip to look at their woodies (rhodo/azalea specialists).

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 20, 2006 1:14 pm

Just wait til you see a really nice purple, Bengal - either Frosted Velvet or Velvet Night should do the trick.

bengal · Post by **bengal** » Jun 20, 2006 2:25 pm

Time to come clean. Last night, I did just a bit more online searching. My heuchera wish list seems to have expanded a tad:

Beauty Color, Chinook, Citronelle, Creme Brulee, Cultus Bay Beauty, Hercules, Hollywood, Key Lime Pie, Mardi Gras, Midnight Rose, Peach Flambe, Peachy Keen, Persian Carpet, Pink Marble, Prince Of Orange, Ruffles, Sashay, Venus (??? -- can't read my own horrid handwriting!)

Wow. Am I a plant addict or what! I'm pretty sure many of those heuchs are to be found only in Europe at this point. Probably a good thing, too.

Tigger! Alexa and I have been talking about a road trip to RareFind. My preference is for going some time fairly soon, and during the week if possible. (Fewer people then?) I want to go down to Bridgeton, NJ, at the end of the month for Woodside Nursery's open house; then I have the Nat'l. Daylily Convention in the middle of July. When are you planning to go?

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 20, 2006 3:10 pm

Of those 18 - I have only heard of 1/2 of them. And I only have 3. You definitely need Beauty of Color!! Mine is still in a holding bed, but it has amazing coloring this year. And the perfect heuchera to set off those gorgeous colors is Obsidian. Almost black - unless you see it in certain light you think it is. They were planted together in the holding bed by chance. But they're going in tandem when I find a spot for them. I'm thinking in front of a bright yellow hosta like Jimmy Crack Corn - no maybe Fire Island to play up on the reds in both. Of course that would require me buying a Fire Island.......

But that was a foregone conclusion anyway.

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 20, 2006 3:41 pm

I got the Midnight Rose from the vendor at the convention that is from NH. I would have to go outside to check the label, but he was in the vendor room closest to the leaf show room, first on the left. Does that help jog anyones memory?

Alexa

bengal · Post by **bengal** » Jun 20, 2006 4:32 pm

Alexa, that'd make it Mason Hollow.

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 20, 2006 4:39 pm

Yep - Mason Hollow it is! I had to run the dog out and I checked while I was there....

Alexa

party_music50 · Post by **party_music50** » Jul 05, 2006 11:23 pm

Those are gorgeous Heuchs! Your Caramel is incredible! (wish I got my order in sooner, as it was 'sold out' for me

) And Geisha's Fan looks almost like a begonia... amazing.

pretends_to_garden · Post by **pretends_to_garden** » Jul 12, 2006 12:39 pm

I was at a local nursery last week and saw "sashay" for the first time.......50% off....could not pass that up!!! So I think I paid only like $4.00 for it!
It really caught my eye with the ruffly green leaves, and the pink underneath! Probably should have gotten more than one for that price......maybe I will go back and see if there are anymore left!

Theresa

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Jul 12, 2006 3:51 pm

Alexa how is your Carmel doing? Mine is in morning sun only and not really doing anything. No colors to speak of, just a kind of bland beige with pink on the backs. I am beginning to think it is not Carmel, even though that is what the tag said it was... we all know how accurate that is

If yours is in more sun and looks good, I may move mine. Let me know

Ginger