Re: Heucheras
I just love the froth of tiny flowers on tall stems on my heucheras,
especially Palace Purple which glows when the sun is behind it.
Every garden composition needs a variety of sizes of flowers. It
gets rather boring having everything the same size.
I tend to prefer small flowers. I'm looking out an upstairs window
at a plum tree covered in bright yellow Clematis tangutica. There
are hundreds of flowers, and they are in proportion to the size of
the tree. The large-flowered hybrid clematis I grow have a couple of
giant flowers on a vine that's about as high as me, and look
beautiful but silly, because they are out of proportion to the size
of their plant.
Diane Whitehead,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
zone 8, sunset zone 5, cool mediterranean climate
