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Plant Database Search Results > Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes'
 
Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' - Pink Coral Bell

Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.  
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Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Perennial
Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifrages)
Origin: California (U.S.A.)
California Native (Plant List): Yes
Evergreen: Yes
Flower Color: Pink
Bloomtime: Spring
Synonyms: [H. SBBG# 93-182]
Parentage: (H. 'Canyon Delight' x H. elegans)
Height: 1-2 feet
Width: 1-2 feet
Exposure: Light Shade/Part Sun
Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 10-15° F
Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' (Pink Coral Bell) - A nice evergreen groundcover perennial with compact, mat-like rosettes that grows to only 2 inches tall by a foot or more wide with 1-inch-wide leaves. Over a long period in spring rise wands of dark fuchsia-pink flowers to 15 inches above the foliage.

Plant in light shade with regular summer water - it can be grown in full sun in coastal gardens. Hardy to 10° F. A very reliable coral bell that blooms well in small pots.

Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' is a hybrid created by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's legendary plant breeder Dara Emery. It is hybrid of Heuchera 'Canyon Delight', which is a 1st generation hybrid between Heuchera elegans and a Heuchera sanguinea hybrid, crossed with Heuchera elegans. It was selected in 1993 and released in 2001 as part of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Heuchera Canyon Quartet Series that also included Heuchera 'Canyon Belle', Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' and Heuchera 'Canyon Melody'. This cultivar has Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's accession number SBBG# 93-181 and received US Plant Patent PP13,281 in December 2002, which has since expired.

In their book "Heuchera and Heucherellas: Coral Bells and Foamy Bells" Timber Press 2005 authors Dan Heims and Grahame Ware note that Linnaeus named Heuchera for Johann Heinrich von Heucher, professor of medicine and Botany at Wittenberg University and that the name Heuchera should be pronounced following this person's name that it commemorates, meaning it so be pronounced HOY-ker-uh, but like most people, we continue to pronounce it HUE-ker-ah.

We grew this cultivar from 1999 until 2004. More information on this plant can be found on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' Plant Introduction Page

This information about Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.

 
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