What Is This Plant (Recommend by Mumsnet!)

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Hi A

Does anyone recognise what this is please? I bought a few with different colour flowers online during lockdown, after seeing a recommendation on here!

To my amazement, they are still going strong and I'd love to order more but I can't remember what they are called or where I got them for!

Any ideas please?!

Is it a huera? I cant spell it.

Heuchera I think. Looks great!

It’s a heuchera bit I’m not sure what one. It’s very pretty

Thats the spelling!

A lovely heuchera. They're amazing when they bloom, aren't they? They're perfect plants for shady areas and come in a variety of leaf colours.

That was it!!
Thank you Mumsnet, I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure it out!

I ordered them online from somewhere that specialises in them and keeps seeds of all the various types but can't find the website. I don't suppose anyone knows please?

@pandora206 They are so beautiful. In the winter, they got very frosty and looked quite poorly but suddenly they've sprung back to life.

You can also divide them when they get bigger to get lots of free plants.

www.plantagogo.com/ is one heuchera specialist that ive used before!

@TheSpottedZebra thank you!

@Wheretheskyisblue ooh really? Is it hard to do?

I fucking love heuchera, I discovered them a couple of years ago and have about six different ones now. They're so magical, they remind me of the woodland in the Dark Crystal and there are hundreds of them! There's also heucherella, which is a hybrid between heuchera and the creeping saxifrage family...really weird group of plants, and so cool.

@TimeToChangeItUpNow I had that problem in winter too. They are supposed to be evergreen but I find I lose quite a few leaves then but they do spring back (after a bit of tidying up). They're easier to grow than hostas (in my garden at least) which I also love.

No really easy, you just pull them apart and pop then back in the soil. When they are about 3-4 years old they naturally do this and look quite messy unless you subdivide them. I have so many in the garden now as I had 4 originals which then made 16 new plants and now on 3rd generation of 50+ plants.

There's also heucherella, which is a hybrid between heuchera and the creeping saxifrage family Isn’t Heucherella a hybrid between Heuchera and Tiarella? Both are in the Saxifrage family. Indeed, although you can often persuade two species to hybridise (which is where we get a lot of garden plants from) and you can occasionally get a cross between two genera (like Heucherella), it has not so far been possibly to cross plants from different families.