Geichera is a stunted (up to 60 cm) perennial plant with spectacular serrated leaves collected in a rosette. Their size and color are diverse, which allows the plant to be used to design rabatki, alpine slides and other floral arrangements.
The most popular varieties
As a result of complex crosses, such a variety of impressive varieties has been obtained that even owners of impressive geyher collections find it difficult to resist buying new items.
Flowerbed with heicher
Plants grow rapidly, forming curtains. In summer, small flowers bloom on thin peduncles. However, foliage gives these plants a special charm. What color shades and combinations are not here! Bright orange heichera Paprika, Obsidian cultivar with dense dark purple foliage, amber heichera Caramel, reminiscent of caramel color, and Suga Frosting - a heyhera of a soft plum shade with a silver tint.
It is interesting! Heicher foliage pleases the eye from spring to late autumn. With the onset of the first cold weather, when many plants wither, heichera only change color, making the landscape even more picturesque.
Gooseberry (Heuchera grossulariifolia)
One of the most unpretentious species is the gooseberry goiter. Her leaves are green, peculiar in shape. The flowers are white, rather large.
Goiche gooseberry
Blood Red (Heuchera sanguinea)
A perennial plant with green wintering leaves was named for the color of inflorescences. In summer, red and red-pink elegant flowers bloom over green rosettes, effectively contrasting with foliage. Flowering continues until autumn, and foliage does not lose its decorative effect even with the onset of cold weather.
A popular variety of this plant species is Robusta. It tolerates both cold and heat. His flowers are red. Green leaves also become red over time.
Robusta
Small flowered, or Heichera mikranta (Heuchera micrantha)
The leaf shape of this small-flowered heichera is similar to the leaves of acutifolia. Some varieties have pubescent shoots. Peduncles tall, up to 70 cm. Miniature flowers of white, pink or red.
Palace Purple is often used to decorate the garden. Large leaves of geyhera Palace Purple carved, maroon. The lower part of the leaf plate is burgundy. In the heat, the color brightens. Small creamy white inflorescences form light clouds against a background of dark foliage. The variety is characterized by high frost resistance.
Palace purple
Cylindrical (Heuchera cylindrica)
This unpretentious species is able to survive in the harsh conditions of the highlands. Its leaves are heart-shaped, rounded, green, with prominent veins. The flowers are pink, red, beige or green, they are collected in inflorescences of a cylindrical shape.
Popular varieties of this species include Green Ivory with dark green leaves and cream inflorescences and Greenfinc with bright red flowers. The plant prefers a well-lit area.
Green ivory
Hairy (Heuchera villosa)
This species is hygrophilous, prefers sunny areas. The leaves of the hehera are hairy, large, pointed, velvety. Not only leafy leaves are pubescent, but also peduncles and petioles.
Brownis, a dark variety of this species, retains a chocolate tint all season. White-pink fluffy inflorescences add decorativeness to it.
Brownis
American (Heuchera Americana)
The fragrant flowers of this heicher have a yellow-green color and are gathered in a whisk. Large jagged green leaves are decorated with dark veins, spots and stains.
The spectacular representative of the species is Marvelous Marble (Marvelous Marble) - a variety with a powerful rhizome and extremely decorative leaves. His rosette is silver-green with brown-purple marble stains. In spring, purple color prevails on leaf blades, and green in summer. The serrated edge of the leaf is framed by a green border.
Marvelous marble
Hybrid (Heuchera hybrida)
This group is most actively used in landscaping. It includes hybrids obtained from crosses of various species. Their colors and shapes amaze the imagination and provide ample opportunities for creating garden compositions. Below are considered the most popular varieties of this species.
Geicher Berry Smoothie. A large (up to 45 cm) outlet of the Berry Smoothie variety is dense and neat. Leaves with pronounced veins change color during the season. No wonder the plant was given the name Berry Cocktail - in the spring the bush acquires a raspberry shade, and in the fall purple-blackberry notes are added. In spring, small flowers are formed on peduncles 55 cm high. The bush is growing rapidly. The plant withstands frost up to -35 ° C.
Berry smoothie
Heichera Midnight Rose Select. Chocolate leaves with raspberry specks are a hallmark of Midnight Rose. The bush is compact and bright. The flowers are pink.
Ring of Fire is a hybrid with carved multi-colored leaves. Adult leaf plates are green, with a silver tint, veins are burgundy red. Coral young shoot with dark venation. In autumn, a pink border appears along the edge of the leaf. The result is an unusual visual effect, thanks to which the variety is called the "Ring of Fire".
It is interesting! Heicher Glitter has silver-purple foliage. Bright pink panicles of inflorescences add a sort of charm.
The leaves of the Delta Don hybrid are distinguished by their brick color with bright lemon edging. In summer, sunny yellow shades prevail on the flower, and by autumn the leaves turn red. Small creamy flowers only set off catchy foliage.
Delta Don
Heicher Flower Zipper surprises with a rich palette. On glossy corrugated leaves there are overflows from golden-caramel to purple, and the reverse side of the leaf plate is pink.
Electra is a heicher with lemon yellow foliage and red venation. The socket is magnificent, 40 cm high.
Additional Information. The white inflorescences of Shanghai hehera effectively contrast with the silver-violet foliage. It blooms from spring to September.
The motley galaxy heyhera is distinguished by leathery leaves with bright pink spots. The primary color of the leaf changes from red to dark brown.
On the green leaves of the Hercules cultivar mottled creamy white blotches. Lacy inflorescences are bright red.
Hercules
Heichera variety Peach Flambe changes leaf color several times during the season. In spring, it is bright orange, with a reddish tint, in summer it is lighter, peach, and in the autumn the bush darkens.
On a note! Peach Crisp - openwork bright heichera. The color of the leaves from her changes from yellow to red. Bright green corrugated Apple Crisp foliage is successfully shaded with silver mottled. The flowers are white. Flowering time is June - September.
Hybrid Amethyst Mist purple-burgundy. Its leaves are serrated, with a silvery haze. Cream inflorescences.
Heichera Marmalade (Lime Marmalade) combines green, yellow and orange shades. Heimer Lime Marmalade gives a special decorative effect to the pronounced corrugated edge of the sheet plate, due to which the marmalade rosette looks lacy, airy.
Marmalade
Close relatives of heicher are heicherells, which are distinguished by more compact sockets and low peduncles. Popular heicherell varieties include Golden Zebra with carved yellow leaves and red veins, bright green Tapestry (a hybrid of heichera and tiarella) with purple venation, a miniature Stoplight with a dark pattern on yellow-green leaves and a fiery orange Sweet Ti. A description of heicherell would be incomplete without mentioning the fast-growing Fire Frost variety, which resembles a heicher with large lettuce leaves, and Solar Powers with reddish-brown strokes on a yellow background.
Important! So that geykhers do not lose their decorativeness, their division and transplantation is carried out every 4-5 years. The optimal planting density is 9 pieces per square meter.
Color Harmony in Landscaping
Perennial plants of the Saxifrage family are widely used in landscape design. Unpretentious bushes of stunning colors retain decorativeness throughout the season. Spectacular decoration of the garden are compositions consisting of heichers of different colors. No less beautiful are the combinations of heicher with other plants.
Geicher in landscape design
Red-leaf varieties are successfully combined with silver cineraria and wormwood. Geichera with dark leaves shade blooming irises and daylilies. Instances with bright foliage form spectacular islands on an emerald lawn.
In complex flower beds, a heicher will become a good companion for other light-loving perennials, for example, roses, clematis or geraniums. Usually heichera is planted in the foreground of a flower arrangement. Varieties with variegated leaves will create bright accents, located among the stones in the rockeries and alpine slides. They look organic and curb along the tracks.
Additional Information. Heicher inflorescences are suitable for cutting. They give airiness to the bouquet and set off more spectacular flowers. Cut inflorescences can retain freshness for up to four weeks.
Growing problems
Caring for a geyher is simple. It withstands high and low temperatures, slight shading and bright sun and is undemanding to the soil. Reproduction by dividing the bush allows you to quickly get several copies and distribute them over the site.
The main problem encountered during the cultivation of this plant is rotting of the roots due to stagnation of water. To prevent it, the soil is well drained by adding a baking powder (sand or perlite).
Important! You should not land in a lowland where water flows after rain.
With increased humidity on the leaves, fungal diseases such as powdery mildew and rust can occur. Affected specimens are treated with fungicides.
Of the insect pests, whiteflies, furrowed weevils and white cicadas are dangerous. They are disposed of with insecticides.
Geichera harmoniously fit into any floral composition, diluting with bright colors a plot of the landscape. Expressive compact bushes of the plant are able to fill empty spaces in the flowerbed, connecting all the plants in a coherent group. Unpretentious bright flower will delight the eye for many years.
