Coral Bells
Heuchera · an orange-leaf coral bells
Grown for mounds of big, glossy, star-shaped leaves in purple-bronze with metallic undersides, an easy edging for paths, borders and pots. Colour is strongest in part shade with afternoon shelter; strong sun fades it. Give it well-drained soil, not heavy clay, and divide it every few years.
- Mature size
- 10 in × 1 ft
- 0.3 × 0.3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- May–Jul
Coral Bells at its mature size
A mature Coral Bells grows 8 to 12 inches tall and 12 to 16 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Walters Gardens.
Through the year
What Coral Bells looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Jul–Apr
Low mound of rounded scalloped caramel-orange leaves.
In flower · May–Jun
Thin wiry stalks of tiny cream bell flowers rising well above the leaf mound.
Growing Coral Bells
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Groundcover, shade garden, deer resistant, and pollinators
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Eastern North America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Coral Bells, that’s about 1 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Coral Bells in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other coral bells
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Obsidian Coral Bells
Palace Purple Coral BellsAll drawn to the same scale.