Re: Anyone collect heucheras?

Well, my comment is: must not be easy being a nursery owner!

Saw a georgeous heuchera at a garden walk yesterday called "Splish Splash."
smallish, very light green, almost white maple-shaped leaves with darker
veins running through them.  Fuzzy.  I want one.

:-)

Diann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
> GeneBush
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 7:09 AM
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Anyone collect heucheras?
>
>
> Hello Diana,
>     Good timing. I just received and potted up some heuchera from
> a fellow nursery
> person. Half dozen each of there named varieties. All are the
> mini's. Two have
> silvery-green foliage and one has the purple. It is raining here
> and I have no
> desire to go out and check the names at this time.
>     In the garden I have one of the pewters, one that blooms with
> the heucheras,
> but has the foliage of a Foam Flower in super large size (name
> lost now), another
> given to us called Raspberry Regal.
>     I have been tempted to carry a line of these in the nursery &
> catalog.... but
> keep chickening out. Just too many out there with 3 breeders
> working on nothing
> but these. Just a bit like another green leafed hosta.... my eyes
> are starting to
> glaze over. Which one does one order in volume, feeling sure I
> have picked the one
> everyone will want?
>     Same story with Pulmonaria... there are now a kizillion
> different ones out
> there now as a result of tissue culture. Many are quite lovely
> indeed... and I
> really like these for the early blooms and wonderful foliage
> almost all year.
> But.... I am sitting on two named varieties in the nursery that
> are not selling
> now.... 3 year old filled pots getting too big to ship.
>     market is being flooded, but the price wholesale is not reflecting the
> abundance.
>     Anyone else care to jump in here?
>     Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
>           around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Diana Pederson <euphorbia@MICHCOM.NET>
> Subject: [SG] Anyone collect heucheras?
>
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am becoming fascinated with the foliage of heucheras.  Does anyone
> > collect these?  I find the reddish/maroon colored ones help brighten up
> > my hosta bed.  I've wondered if there might be a society for them?
> >
> > Also, this list seems mighty quiet. In May 1999 there were 336 messages
> > sent but this May (2000) there were only 149 messages.  It seems to be
> > decreasing monthly now.  Have other groups formed on specific plants and
> > taken away some of the conversation from here?
> > --
> > Diana Pederson, Ingham County, Michigan, Zone 5, United States
>
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