Plum Cascade Foamy Bells
Heucherella 'Plum Cascade'
Terra Nova
Cascade™ Series
An exciting trailing variety producing plum-purple deeply lobed leaves with silvery highlights and dark gray veins; dainty light pink bell flowers all summer on short stems; a vigorous grower that forms a dense cascading mound
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Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Plum Cascade™ Foamy Bells is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Plum Cascade™ Foamy Bells features dainty spikes of shell pink bell-shaped flowers with white overtones rising above the foliage from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive small glossy lobed leaves remain plum purple in color with distinctive dark gray veins and tinges of silver throughout the year.
Planting and Growing
Plum Cascade™ Foamy Bells will grow to be about 9 inches tall at maturity extending to 12 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 32 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 28 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.
This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider covering it with a thick layer of mulch in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers partial shade to shade
Keep moisture level average to moist
9" (12" with flowers)Hx32"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are shell pink & white
Flowers from early to late summer
Attracts hummingbirds
Known to be safe
Tolerates wet ground.