Palace Purple Coral Bells
Heuchera micrantha var. diversifolia ‘Palace Purple’ · a purple-leaf coral bells
The original purple coral bells and a Perennial Plant of the Year, grown for big, glossy leaves in purple-bronze with wine-red undersides and airy sprays of tiny cream flowers. It edges paths or fills pots. Colour holds best in part shade with afternoon shelter; in full sun keep the soil moist.
- Mature size
- 10 in × 1 ft
- 0.3 × 0.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jun–Jul
Palace Purple Coral Bells at its mature size
A mature Palace Purple Coral Bells grows to about 10 in tall and 1 ft 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 Palace Purple Coral Bells looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Winter · Dec–Feb
Smaller, duller bronze leaves lying closer to the ground.
In leaf · Mar–May, Aug–Nov
Mound of metallic bronze-purple maple-shaped leaves, no flower stems.
In flower · Jun–Jul
Thin wiry stems of tiny cream flowers above the bronze-purple leaves.
Growing Palace Purple Coral Bells
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Shade garden, deer resistant, and pollinators
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Western North America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Palace Purple 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 Palace Purple Coral Bells in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other coral bells
Palace Purple Coral Bells
Coral Bells
Lime Marmalade Coral Bells
Obsidian Coral BellsAll drawn to the same scale.