The Primrose Path - What's New

HEUCHERA 'FROSTED VIOLET' FEATURED PLANT

Heuchera 'Frosted Violet' has been featured as a Showcase Plant by Garden Splendor. This includes a discussion with David Wilson about using it in the garden and about The Primrose Path on the radio program The Paul Parent Garden Club.

MONROVIA NURSERY INTRODUCES FOUR NEW PRIMROSE PATH HEUCHERAS

This spring Monrovia will bring out four of our plants. These are being marketed as an exclusive collection and are plants that feature larger and showier flowers than other purple and silver leaved forms now on the market.


'Moonlight' has very large luminous pale green flowers and contrastingly dark stems over purple foliage. When we evaluated our trial plants in the early '90s this stood out because of its flowers, but also because of very good growth proportions and an unusual mysterious quality to the coloration. As shown in the photo 'Moonlight' goes well with ferns like Athyrium niponicum f. pictum and A. 'Ghost.'	'Caroline' is a special favorite of ours. It is named after our three-year-old granddaughter. 'Caroline' the plant has large creamy white flowers that contrast very pleasingly with the red-purple buds and soft bronze-purple foliage. This grows about 20" tall and is very floriferous.

'Crystal Spires' has a cool, icy look, quite different from 'Caroline.' The plants are relatively large, with leaves that are almost entirely silver and white flowers to about 24".	'Rose Majesty' has large pink flowers on 24" stems and relatively small, rounded soft bronze leaves with a slight ruffle.