Heuchera Palace Purple, (Heuchera americana Palace Purple)

Heuchera americana Palace Purple(Heuchera Palace Purple)-is a perennial plant with beautiful red leaves. The flowers are small and inconspicuous on long and delicate peduncles in a terminal color. Extremely beautiful plants with large dark leaves,which will add depth and contrast to the garden.

Heuchera is a herbaceous evergreen plant with a short and bearded rhizome and leaves collected in a basal rosette. The leaves are on short petioles, may be shallowly sliced ​​into 5 to 9 the partition, serrated, authorized. The peduncles are long and the flowers are loose panicles of small bell-shaped flowers, which may be painted white, pink, greenish, Red. There are types, which can also be grown in the sun, but it feels best in light penumbra, that and in a larger shade. Drought resistant, it is easy to maintain, it is long-lived in the garden. Any loose and well-drained garden soil is good for it. It needs moderate watering. It is evergreen. When the new leaves develop, then the old ones die and there is practically no moment, in which the Heuchera looks ugly. Heuchera retains decorativeness 3-5 years. An annual collar is required, if you notice, that the rhizome is exposed. When the tuft gets old and loses its compactness and beauty, it can be divided into separate rosettes and "rejuvenated" in this way. This operation is carried out in the spring, together with the formation of the young leaves, but before flowering. Hoichers do not tolerate abundant fertilization, rather, they need very low concentrations, especially in foliar feeding.