Heucheras are Great for Winter Colour

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berry-smoothie(Heuchera Berry Smoothie)

Heucheras are great for some winter colour for your flower beds and borders. Just look how gorgeous these frosty beauties look around our nursery after our first frost last week! As they are hardy perennials, they can normally withstand the colder temperatures and some varieties even retain their brightly coloured foliage.

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Heuchera Tangerine Wave has pretty cascading colours of green, yellow, orange and pink with even brighter under foliage colours.

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fire-alarm(Heuchera Fire Alarm)

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All our plants ship to you in big 1 litre pots so that they have developed roots and are ready to be planted. They would make fantastic Christmas presents for the plant lovers in your life as they can be planted straight away. Order by December 10 to receive your plants in time for Christmas. Want to give the gift of plants but don’t think someone will want to plant them this time of year? We also sell gift vouchers here.

Garden Tags – The Great New Gardening App

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We want to tell everyone about a great new app we’ve been using called Garden Tags!

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Garden Tags is a place for gardeners to come together, from complete novice to experts. You can keep track of your garden progress in one place, showcase plant varietals by tagging them, and get planting information and inspiration from fellow gardeners. You can also take photos of plants in your garden or other places.

The photo above shows our profile, and as you can see there is a feed that showcases new photos, a garden tab with photos from our garden, a plants tab to keep track of our different plants, and a wish list tab. You can add plants you see around the app to your wish list by tapping the star icon below the photo.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can find more information on the Garden Tag’s website or download the app for free in the App Store or on Google Play.

If you download the app, make sure to follow us, just go into the discover tab and search for Plantagogo under users!

Plant in the Sun or Plant in the Shade

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A good rule of thumb to remember (not set in stone but a great guide) is that like pale skin, the paler coloured leaves like Lime greens, yellows, and all heucherella and tiarella need more shade from the full sun to stop them burning up!

Richer colours like the reds, oranges, purples and black love full sun as well as light shade. Why not make room in your garden for evergreen hardy plants like these.

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These colours can all go in partial shade if you wanted to plant them all together.

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These colours can all go in partial shade together.

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These colours can all go in full sun as well as partial shade.

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These colours can all go in full shade as well as partial shade.

Don’t be afraid to mix and match colours for a truly spectacular look in your garden. As you can see from the first two photos all these can be planted in the same aspect to give you a kaleidoscope of colours!

October Featured Plants

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Heuchera ‘Silver Celebration’ is great for full sun or partial shade, with a gorgeous bright pink underside of the foliage. They are hardy evergreen and great for winter colour 
Can be used in pots, hanging baskets, raised beds, living walls, borders, woodland etc.

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Heuchera ‘Black Taffeta’ has shiny black ruffled foliage and white flowers in summer too!
Great for full sun, it’s hardy and evergreen.

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Heuchera ‘Carmencita’ is new for 2016 with fabulous foliage from pink-red to deep red changing with the seasons. When flowering it has pretty pink flowers.

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Now is a great time to plant Tiarella ‘Angel Wings’ so that is established for spring. This is it in flower in the autumn but in the spring it’s covered in pretty starry wands of foaming flowers! Hardy & evergreen like part shade to full shade. Looks perfect with bulbs and spring flowers as well as Summer when it will complement your borders and pots.

For a planting suggestion why not try 3 plants in a 12 – 18 inch pot would look just amazing! 3 Heucheras would look great in containers together either mixed or all the same variety which would be evergreen and hardy and give good colour all winter.

For added interest you could plant bulbs around like miniature daffodils, crocus snowdrops etc.

Make sure that the pot you use has good drainage (Broken crocks, pebbles, grit, or ever polystyrene pieces) using little feet under the pot is a great way to ensure the rain runs through.

Happy planting!

Heuchara ‘Fire Alarm’ Will Brighten Your Autumnal Garden

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Keep your garden looking bright through Autumn with plants that keep bright coloured foliage. Heuchera ‘Fire Alarm’ is the perfect addition with it’s bright red leaves and white flowers popping out. The leaves stay bright in Spring, Summer and Autumn.

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We sell most of our plants in 1 litre pots and these are growing outside and can go straight into your garden, easy! They love full sun or partial shade.

As most Heucheras they grow very well as ground cover or plant in containers as the star of the show and when they flower in the summer the bees love them!

***EDITED*** Apologies for anyone who wanted to purchase Heuchera ‘Fire Alarm’ as shortly after our newsletter went out we have sold out for the season! Have a browse around our other lovely plants in our shop where you can narrow the search terms to colour, aspect and more to find the perfect new addition to your garden. If you can’t decide, why not have a look at our special offers page and choose a mixed assortment and let us do the picking for you!