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Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' (Canyon Pink Coral Bells) - A low growing perennial with small gray mottled lobed leaves. The flowers are a rose pink with lighter centers with the bloom period from mid spring through early summer.
Plant in sun to light shade on the coast and in light shade inland and give regular to occasional irrigation - less so in shaded situations. It is cold hardy to around 0° F. A great small reliable Coral Bells that works well in bright shade to full sun such as along the dripline of our native coast live oaks.
Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' is an early hybrid created by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's legendary plant breeder Dara Emery who was breeding to develop small-leafed, compact Coral Bells with showy flowers and working with various California native species and crossing them with the showy Arizonia species Heuchera sanguinea. This hybrid is listed by some as being a cross between Heuchera elegans and Heuchera sanguinea, while others list it as involving Heuchera sanguinea and plants of the Heuchera rubescens complex. It was introduced by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 1985 as the first of the gardens Heuchera introductions and it remains as one of the best of the smaller Heuchera that we sell. One of the more recent Quartet Series Heuchera 'Canyon Melody' has 'Canyon Pink' as one parent.
In their book "Heuchera and Heucherellas: Coral Bells and Foamy Bells" Timber Press 2005 authors Dan Heims and Grahame Ware note that Linnaeus named Heuchera for Johann Heinrich von Heucher, professor of medicine and Botany at Wittenberg University and that the name Heuchera should be pronounced following this person's name that it commemorates, meaning it so be pronounced HOY-ker-uh, but like most people, we continue to pronounce it HUE-ker-ah.
More information on this plant can be found on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' Plant Introduction Page.
The information about Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
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