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Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' (Canyon Duet Coral Bell) - An evergreen perennial that forms low mat-like tufts to about 5 inches tall by 1 foot or more wide with small, 1 ¼-inch wide leaves. The strongly bi-colored flowers of dark pink and white rise above the foliage on 12- 18-inch-tall stems in mid spring. The bi-colored look is caused by the dark rose pink flower buds fading first to pale pink then to white as flowering progresses.
Plant in light shade with regular summer water - it can be grown in full sun in coastal gardens and is tolerant of a wide variety of soil types. It is hardy to around 10° F.
Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' is a hybrid created by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's legendary plant breeder Dara Emery. As with Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes, 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 Chimes and Heuchera 'Canyon Melody'. This cultivar has Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's accession number SBBG# 93-181 and received US Plant Patent PP13,280 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 have grown this very nice cultivar with bicolored flowers since 1999. More information on this cultivar can be found on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' Plant Introduction Page.
This information about Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' 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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