Let’s be honest… the descriptor ‘Pumpkin Spice’ is probably overused. Maybe you love it. Maybe you don’t. Let me argue that you should consider adding it to your garden. This version of Heucherella let you get a little taste of fall in the spring. It explodes with bright orange growth that will highlight your hostas, and put a spotlight on your greens. As the seasons turn the orange mellows out and blends into your landscape letting your summer blooms take center stage. Use it to blend the colors of your show-stopper plants together and fill in the shallow areas of your garden near a border or walkway. Silvers, greens, oranges, reds, and purples will have pleasing transitions with this little heucherella tucked into your garden. Like Heuchera, Heucherella is a great selection for container planting and adding color in garden beds or walkways. In summer tall stems of flowers, that are excellent for cuttings, shoot up from the plant to suspend an array of bell shaded flowers. Sweet Tea is a hybrid between tiarella and H. villosa, giving it excellent heat and humidity tolerance. Heucherella is a hybrid of the popular North American Heuchera (coral bells) and North American Tiarella (foam flower) combining many of the outstanding characteristics such as deeply lobed leaves, a multitude of colors, and larger size. ‘Pumpkin Spice’ is a H. villosa hybrid which means that it is naturally more heat and humidity tolerant and also has greater vigor than Heucherellas without such parentage. It forms a very dense mound of interesting foliage that is evergreen in most climates. Color varies with the amount of light. Tan, brown, green, red in shade, brighter orange in part sun. Photo Credit: Walters Gardens & New Blooms Nursery
