Re: hard working heucheras

**H*@aol.com**

Up in my zone 4 garden....In the third year of trials three  remain favs 
and one gets a very interesting.  Dolce Licorice is strong,  tight and a tough 
plant to beat.  Beaujolais is large, reliable and keeps  its color through 
the whole season.  Caramel is fascinating as it changes  color and shades 
from the day it appears til the day it's covered with  snow.  Midnight Rose 
still interests me but the plants are thin and not as  robust as the three 
above but very interesting color and texture...it's the only  one I have 
growing in full sun.

Have about a dozen others and the jury is still out on  them.

One thing that most don't remember or realize is that years of  Japanese 
Beetle outbreaks I remember finding crowns of these plants riddled with  the 
white grubs  feeding away.  Watch for withering plants where the  crown 
simply lifts from the ground with no resistance.  This goes back some  20 years 
when were only growing the species in white or red.  Maybe we can  hope that 
by some miracle the new intros aren't as tasty.

A

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press 

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