Heucherella Plants

Get To Know Foamy Bells At Nature Hills Nursery!

Foamy Bells (xHeucherella) are a hybrid cross between Coral Bells and Foam Flowers but seem to be over-the-top versions of both! Keeping the fancy flowers and leaves of its parent plants and showing off in the part sun or shade garden, these perennials will have you looking twice!

The showy spikes of airy, fizzy-looking bubblegum pink flowers appear in big bottlebrush clusters, like Foam Flowers, while others appear in dainty bell-shaped wands like their Coral Bells family. Combining the best of both worlds with their colorful, maple-leaf-shaped foliage that is typically two-toned and always vibrant!

The blossoms easily charm every pollinator, bee, butterfly, and Hummingbird in the area! Appearing in late spring, the mildly fragrant blossoms add to the trinity of beauty created by these unique plants!

Fantastic Shade Garden Perennials

The relatively small Foamy Bells plant will add a huge stroke of color to the shaded areas of your landscape.

With so much color on one plant, plus being space-saving and forming tidy mounds of vivid color! That means any shady garden can enjoy these vibrant little flowering ornamentals!

Growing short but politely spreading, these fill your landscape with color! Add to both informal or formal beds, and as extravagant finishing touches anywhere you need some garden bling!

Heat and humidity-tolerant, Foamy Bells love shady beds and the edge of woods, and rambling throughout the understory. There is no worry about deer or other pests, as Foamy Bells are very resilient!

Plant these radiant perennials among mixed perennial beds, Cottage gardens, cut flower borders, pollinator gardens, woodlands gardens, and even a Rock garden! Mixing and melding with other shade garden plants as well as other Tiarella, Heuchera, or Heucherella with ease!

Soften edges, hardscapes, and hard textures by adding Foamy Bells as a colorful skirt around trees and shrubs! You'll add a showy front of the garden edging planting to define garden beds, and highlight other plants beautifully with Foamy Bells! Plant along a walkway or encircling a patio, they will create a fringe-like foliage border.

Spreading politely, these blanket the ground between tall perennials or act as flowering groundcover without worrying about loads of maintenance or fuss!

The lively color stands out and acts as a vibrant specimen all on their own but you can ramp up the color pop by planting Heucherella in small groups!

Because of their compact size, they are also a good choice for decorative pots and window boxes. Show off with a planter full of these filler and thriller plants encircling a taller specimen accent tree on your back deck or front porch for a unique focal point planting!

Caring For Foamy Bells

Heucherella thrives in partial shade and full shade, having more color in more sun but doing better in more shade in hotter climates. You'll get more blooms in more sun too, but in sun or shade, Foamy Bells bloom for many weeks!

Handling humidity and heat, as well as cold winters throughout USDA plant hardiness zones 4 to 9, this Perennial plant is easy and low-maintenance! Deer, pests, and diseases even seem to skip over these hardy little show-offs!

Requiring moist humus-rich, well-drained soil, Foamy Bells are not particular on soil type, just be sure they won't ever dry out. A good 3-4 inch deep layer of arborist mulch will help with that by maintaining soil moisture and insulating the roots.

Prune these little plants in the very early spring to clear away old foliage and freshen up the mounds. You can deadhead the flowers as soon as they fade or snip the blossoms for indoor bouquets if you'd prefer to keep Foamy Bells as a foliage plant exclusively!