Hosta A through E Zone 6 Ohio

Some of my Hosta collection. A through E. Next month will be letters F through L and the following month M through Z.

Well I see my Yorkshire Terrier Pagan managed to get into one of the photos.

Heuchera Coral Bells in Ohio Zone 6 Evergreen Hardiness

My Heuchera collection did not do quite as bad this year as a great deal of my perennials with the drought and extreme heat we've had in Ohio. The hardest hit by the drought were the smaller immature ones, although all had some burned leaves, some more than others.

Heuchera Silver Scrolls and Heuchera Blackout. Silver Scrolls is absolutely a beautiful Coral Bells with it's very unique leaves. It's a little smaller Coral Bells than the others I have so if placing a group of varieties, this would be one towards the front. Love it. Blackout has very dark leaves and they seem to stay dark. So far it is handling itself here well.

Heuchera Prince and Heuchera Can Can. Love them both, they both do extremely well in my area and are evergreen and handled this year's drought and extreme heat in full sun.

Heuchera Plum Pudding and Heuchera Beaujolais. Plum Pudding is beautiful. Hard to tell from the photo but the leaves have very unique markings, love it. Beaujolias so far has done really well in this extreme heat and drought and both have been evergreen for me here.

Heuchera Midnight Rose and Heuchera Palace Purple. Midnight Rose is one of the most beautiful Coral Bells and handles horrible weather and is evergreen so far here. Palace Purple has been around from the early beginnings of the colored Coral Bells. It's prime looks are in the Spring, but I find it suffers in full sun more than most of the ones I have.

Heuchera Melting Fire and Heuchera Volcano. Melting Fire is one of my very favorites and handles all the horrible weather it's been put through this year. Volcano is still young but so far is doing well and both are evergreen for me.

Heuchera Georgia Peach and Heuchera Stormy Seas. Love both of these, both have handled the horrible weather this year and still look great. Both are evergreen for me.

Heuchera Dark Secret and Heuchera Frosted Violet. I love both of these, especially Dark Secret which handles all weather even the drought. Frosted Violet really is a very pretty purple. Both are evergreen for me.

Heuchera Caramel and Heuchera Tiramisu. Caramel is my favorite gold and tolerates a lot, absolutely love this Coral Bells. Tiramisu is a beautiful plant but it has had a very difficult time in full sun, hence it's small size after a few years. It's in a new location for a month now, still full sun, but not quite as intense so I am hoping it will do better next year where I moved it to. Both are evergreen for me.

Heuchera Bressingham and Heuchera Snow Angel. Both are green but such lovely plants. Bressingham's blooms are so eye catching, you notice them across the yard. Snow Angel is heavily variegated with white, although this particular photo did not catch it very well. Will try for a better one next year. Very pretty plant. Both are evergeen for me.

Heuchera Binoache and Heuchera Brown Sugar are both new to me this year. One of the important things I've noticed about Coral Bells is that you have better luck with at least a quart size plant. Anything smaller has too much of a chance of burning up over the summer with the stress of being new and not having enough leaves to help itself along. With a larger plant, if the top leaves burn up as they were all doing this year to some extent with our drought and extreme heat, the burned up leaves are there to protect the lower leaves and the plant will survive. Hoping they are also evergreen.

Fall Color Garden Ohio Japanese Maples Picea

The Acer palumatum Fireglow has to be one of the best Japanese Maples to own. Does great in full sun here in zone 6 and even though everything is cut back except for the Mums and the Hosta, this garden still looks good with the JM and the Pinus s. Glauca Nana and Mums, even though the Hosta are pretty much gone for the year. Unfortunately we are technically still in drought and things just did not give much Fall color this year. I kept waiting for it to but it started coloring and went straight to leaf drop before things finished coloring.

The back line showing the lovely Mums and the Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum Crimsom Queen.

The burgundy Mums seem outstanding in color this year. Maybe it's just the fact that the summer was so bland with everything burned up.

My beautiful Paperbark Maple, Acer griseum Paperbark. It started turning red and unfortunately the leaves started dropping before it was finished. I just love the bark on this tree.

My small Picea pungens Glauca Globosa with the pink Mum. I will probably add another pink Mum here. Since there are a few small Heuchera here I'm not sure until Spring if I'll have room and decided to wait until then to make a decision on it.

The Picea abies Reflexa with the Viburnum Autumn Jazz doing a little Fall color. Thanks for stopping by. Next month is a post about my Heuchera.